Why do I get up in the morning? Why do I eat breakfast, measure time in hours, wear pants, celebrate birthdays? Why do we put north in maps on top? Why does our alphabet have 26 letters, why do we use the decimal system to count and not the dozenal system or others?
When you start asking questions, it is hard to stop.
Questions are dangerous.
They make you think.
My daughter once asked, while waving a dollar note: “Why is this worth one dollar?”
“Because it says so. See, there it says ‘one dollar’,” I answered.
So she took a piece of paper and wrote “1” on it.
“Now, I have two dollars!” she said smiling and skipped out of the room.
Her question reminded me that money is just a story we got so used to believing that we think it is true. At the end of the day, money has only the value you believe it has.