Money maps the flow of goods and services between people in the real world, allowing them to better coordinate economic activity. Like a college degree maps the flow of education received or a driver's license maps permission to drive, money serves as a type of currency that represents value transferred through various transactions and exchanges in society. Currencies provide a symbolic mapping of different flows that occur in the real world.

1. What is a currency?

2. The real world is full
of countless types of flow.

3. flows of goods + services

4. flows of participation

5. flows of trust

6. to name just a few.

7. As social beings, we find it useful...

8. to map some of these flows...

9. to better coordinate our actions.

10. So, there is the real world,
real world

11. and the map we make of it.
map
real world

12. A college degree maps a flow of
education that occurred.
map
real world

13. A driver’s license maps a flow of
permission.
map
real world

14. And money maps a flow of goods
and services.
map
real world

15. These are all forms of currency.