Money (which is trade, n'est-ce pas?) is just one way of getting something.
Mais non, money is not "just" trade or "just" one way of getting something. Off the top of my head, money has multiple roles which include being:
In particular, the last role is vital for the informational function of money.
Mais non, money is not "just" trade or "just" one way of getting something. Off the top of my head, money has multiple roles which include being:
medium of exchange (that's trade)
store of value
Which is time shifted trade. I.e. I trade a perishable good now (like my labor or a bottle of milk) for some money, I store it for a while, and then I buy something with it. I can't imagine that this is anything more than a description of what we mean when we say "store of value"
How much money would it take to engineer biological immortality for at least half of the world's population, within 20 years, with 99% confidence?