Is money really made up? That is a good question just like how money can or can’t make you happy. It can go both ways and it can be argued both ways. Explained by author Richard Davies of the 2020 New York Times article, “The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round,” there are many things in the world that are invented or even great thoughts, but nothing compares to money. While reviewing the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein, he stated that money is really  “a made-up thing, a shared fiction. Money is fundamentally, unalterably social.” Throughout the book and the article both Goldstein and Davies are talking about how money is fiction, it is all an imagination, but it was given a value so everyone follows by that value.