Jacob Goldstein tells us, in his book “Money,” says that money is really “a made-up thing, a shared fiction, money is fundamentally, unalterably social.” I believe that Goldstein is trying to say that money itself has no actual value, and is only something that shows the idea of value. Rather then it actually having a use or something intrinsically interesting about it, it is more of an “I owe you.”

Sources:

Davies, Richard “The Fiction That Makes The World Go Round.” The New Your Times, 8 Septemeber 2022