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Money gives us a very useful means of measuring
such relative values. My services are worth, let us
say, 7 pounds a week to my employer; my rent is
thirsty shillings a wee; a pair of shoes costs one
pound and so on.

Money is also of very great use as a means of
exchanging goods and services. If, for example, I am
a shoemaker, it will not be at all convenient to me
always to have to exchange the shoe I make for other
goods or services. A doctor may want to buy a pair of
shoes from me, then have to find something else that
I want, or look for another shoemaker who needs
him. Without money, the tax collector would come
back to his office with an extraordinary collection of
objects.

Considered as a means of storing up buying
power, money has good and bad points. It can more

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