Money exists because trust doesn't. The necessity for money to exist is proof of the doctrine of total depravity.
The form of money best equipped to reign-in total depravity in a digital age is #Bitcoin
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It just solves the double coincidence of wants. It doesn’t have anything to do with evil or depravity.
The double coincidence of wants problem can be solved one of two ways:
1. Trusting that the other person will "pay you back" a favor of roughly equivalent value in the future.
2. Money
Because you cannot trust people to do 1, due to immorality and corruption, we use 2 instead.
It has EVERYTHING to do with evil and depravity.
“Due to immorality and corruption”, they might not have anything you want or that is efficiently calculable for repayment. It’s an efficiency issue. Even if humans were extremely trustworthy by nature and would always pay you back in goods and services, money would still be superior for economic calculation.
Doesn't have to be either/or. Money can have other advantages while ultimately existing to solve the problem of trust, which is fundamentally a moral problem.
And I would argue that while money is more efficient than barter, by far, it is not more efficient than credit. Yet, credit reintroduces the need for trust of people who are ultimately not worthy of it. Even when we try to organize the way credit is used in order to make the issuers of credit more trustworthy, we find that the temptation to abuse the privilege is too strong, and they sooner or later, usually sooner, violate that trust.
Sound money also has the added benefit of putting a natural limitation on the amount of evil a government can afford to perpetrate. When you have a money printer, you can extract far more value from your citizens without their consent in order to fund endless wars and line your own pockets. Not so when there is no mechanism to arbitrarily inflate the money supply.
