” So, you and your neighbor both go to the
King and arrange a trade for food. Your
neighbor has paper, you have gold.”
First, there is more than gold and paper. In the past, working class did not trade in gold much. Second, it is the king buying the chicken. He isn’t a farmer, he lives by taxing others.
Third, good luck with that. It won’t be a bunch of weak pansies he is lording over. Try and lord over your neighbors, and they’ll kill you for it.
won’t be making a plow outta gold...
people just cannot get past the idea in their head that gold has value - its only value is what everyone agrees the value is, when its a currency