you don't get anything for yourself from the exchange

You don't need to accumulate it for it to be money

it has a similar function for universal equivalence

The US government actually owns all forms of money that they print out and can recall them if they want to.

You GAIN money

So what makes it different from your currency?

you don't get vouchers off of other people

you get it for the hours you work

So a wage?

>hourly wages

WOW THIS IS TOTALLY NOT CURRENCY GOIYM!

It's not a wage because nobody makes excess profit

a wage involves the boss taking some of the produced profit

Wages don't require excessive profit

if the boss gives the worker the value they produced

they lose money

this is how wage works

You might be thinking of salary

@Horse Shmeat Please, read this definition in it's entirety of currency.

I fucking did

you can stop copy pasting

it's not wealth

"PAYMENT FOR WORK: WAGES"

you don't accumulate vouchers as fucking wealth

Yeah but currency =/= wealth

Currency does not equal wealth.

Currency is money.

but you accumulate currency and money

that is the point

it is used as a standard for equivalent values

Maybe in today's world but for all intents and purposes currency at its base is something you trade (or in your case turn in) for commodity

Which is what wealth is, when you have a lot of currency.

Nobody gets anything off of vouchers except commodities

No wealth is a combination of currency and commodities

nobody takes your vouchers for the shit you bought

But the vouchers would still be currency.

Even if there was no excess.

it's basically a certificate of having labored

So you can have a voucher and not work more than once and just keep taking and taking?

Sick dude sign me up for your commune

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