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>>>This diary is about songs that are about ‘money’, with a very few words about that complicated subject. Because today is when income taxes are due.
Esperanto: Money = mono Vulcan: Money = donku Latin: Money = pecunia
Words below are from this Wiki: Money
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts.
Money historically possessed intrinsic value as a commodity; but now nearly all contemporary money systems are based on unbacked fiat money. Its value is consequently derived by social convention, having been declared by a government to be legal tender; that is, it must be accepted as a form of payment, for "all debts, public and private".
The gold standard, a monetary system where the medium of exchange are paper notes that are convertible into pre-set, fixed quantities of gold, replaced the use of gold coins as currency in the 17th–19th centuries in Europe. These gold standard notes were made legal tender, and redemption into gold coins was discouraged. By the beginning of the 20th century, almost all countries had adopted the gold standard, backing their legal tender notes with fixed amounts of gold.
After World War II, most countries adopted fiat currencies that were fixed to the U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar was in turn fixed to gold. In 1971 the U.S. government suspended the convertibility of the dollar to gold. After this many countries de-pegged their currencies from the U.S. dollar, and most of the world's currencies became unbacked by anything except the governments' fiat of legal tender and the ability to convert the money into goods via payment.
In lieu of money, I’ll donate some songs:
Money (That’s What I Want) by The Beatles
Money by Pink Floyd
Money For Nothing by Dire Straits
