Because that philosophy has won over the most people.
I didn’t say it was the best. You may or may not believe that living in a yurt foraging mushrooms might be the best life; but “western “ civilization has deemed capitalism to be the way.
Under capitalism people need money to use for the things they want that they cannot make themselves.
A wise man once said “Money can’t buy me Love” —but it certainly improves your bargaining position
I should note that currency and capitalism are not the same thing. Pretty much every existing economic system has currency of some form, it’s just a way of tracking the relative values of various things so that people can make agreements about who gets what.
Because that philosophy has won over the most people.
I didn’t say it was the best. You may or may not believe that living in a yurt foraging mushrooms might be the best life; but “western “ civilization has deemed capitalism to be the way.
Under capitalism people need money to use for the things they want that they cannot make themselves.
A wise man once said “Money can’t buy me Love” —but it certainly improves your bargaining position
I should note that currency and capitalism are not the same thing. Pretty much every existing economic system has currency of some form, it’s just a way of tracking the relative values of various things so that people can make agreements about who gets what.
This is a very important distinction. Even socialism and communism can use currency to track value.