Don’t take my word for it. Let’s hear the definition from public figures.
Andreas Antonopolous
Money is a language of extremely narrow scope and applicability, but enormous power, because what it expresses is value, especially the value of human time[…]
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Jack Mallers
Money is our time and energy in abstracted form