Money is fungible. All dollars, regardless of how you, got them are interchangeable.
Knowledge is not. Spending 20 years mastering piano will do little good if you need to build a staircase.
Shit, spend a couple years learning how to build furniture and then go build a chicken coop. There's shockingly little overlap between those two skill sets! That's not a hypothetical. There's a lot of knowledge that your body learns that doesn't come into play doing carpentry.
that money is fungible is part of the design of money, that complex/subtle consideration is one thing that went into the construction of a monetary system. We could use non-fungible money if it seemed better.
the fungibility of money is similar to the idea that all the steps in a staircase should be the same height.
Some money is more fungible than others. Crypto is a little less so: look at the DAO that tried to buy a copy of the US Constitution and failed, only small $ contributors can't get their donation back without losing most/all in gas.
> mere money? talk about overlooking a piece of remarkable complexity
Wrong framing. "Mere money" because we virtually all have money, there are many ways to make it, and the possession of it does not encapsulate any skillset or knowledge; exchanging it for access to artifacts generated with a massive knowledge repository is like trading sand for glass.
mere money? talk about overlooking a piece of remarkable complexity