>yet when it comes to currency someone has decided that we need elaborate schemes
Money is a commodity, and the demand for it changes over time. Do you really believe that we should have the same "amount" in circulation as we did 200 years ago?
>unable to be printed or manipulated
Think of money as a concept. It's a means to perform financial transactions, nothing more. My ability to perform such transactions shouldn't be constrained because we haven't "cut down enough trees make paper", or "dug enough metal out of the ground" or "solved enough mathematical puzzles".
Money is a commodity, and the demand for it changes over time. Do you really believe that we should have the same "amount" in circulation as we did 200 years ago?
>unable to be printed or manipulated
Think of money as a concept. It's a means to perform financial transactions, nothing more. My ability to perform such transactions shouldn't be constrained because we haven't "cut down enough trees make paper", or "dug enough metal out of the ground" or "solved enough mathematical puzzles".