What is "money"?

[Shankapotomus]

36. Money is meaningless

I think practically all value on earth traces back to the sun. Plants take the energy from the sun, some animals eat the plants and still others eat the plant eaters but it all traces back to sunlight. Sunlight is the true money. People say they "worked for this" and they "worked for that" but everything we "own" traces back to either the forced appropriation of another living entity's energy or the claiming of inanimate resources that never 'belonged' to us in the first place. It's funny how "It's mine because I worked for it!" is used as the "valid" and sole justification for a person's claim to a resource while they ignore any animal's claim to its resources that exerts the same energy to acquire them. The truth is, nobody truly works for or "earns" anything on this planet. We just take it. Follow the chain of commodities and it will end with someone who is either seizing or gathering them up without payment or reimbursement. And if we are going to take it we might as well recognize there are other beings on this planet that need to live and figure out a more equitable method of distribution.