Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods …

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Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.315, Penguin
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