The Culmination of Alchemy

35% of America’s economy involves the machinations of money:  keeping track of it, trading it, changing its shape, borrowing it, storing it, loaning it, advising people where to put it, warning people where not to, selling things for it, forcing other nations to use it… the dollar is ALMIGHTY.  What a clever way to organize the haves and have nots.  The concept of money came from people who had to travel long distances to deliver real valuable things from one place to another.  They were vulnerable to raids and thieves.

Over a thousand years ago, alchemy was a great undertaking that posited Earth’s elements could be transformed through chemistry and occult practices.  Alchemists attempted to do things such as turn lead into gold, create an elixir of immortality, and create a panaceas with the ability to cure any disease.  It did not go well. 
 
The Castillion and his kindred had an idea… why not take this promise of paper representations of real things like gold slowly be separated?  Make people comfortable with the promissory note and the fact that something could back it up such a natural assumption that they would never notice when the “gold standard” was removed from the paper representations that the money implied.  It was literally the culmination of alchemy’s grand scheme. Now paper needs nothing more than a vague idea of value, and we the people buy it like a religion. 
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