The most valuable currency in history has not been the US dollar, nor has it been the British pound, nor the Euro. And if you are thinking about metals, like the 16th century Spanish Real, gold and silver coins were not the strongest currencies in history either, for the Spanish Empire declined and fell no matter how much gold its absolute kings hoarded. Neither is it today's the bitcoin the most valuable monetary unit, which is a virtual currency promoted by psychopathic billionaires to slowly take control of the world's economy and establish their own psychological government to control the population of the planet.
All the known currencies have not been the most highly-appraised by the population of any given country, for the value of these government-issued monetary units depends on political and financial stability, and that stability depends on decisions made by politicians, many of whom do not practice the virtue of crystal-clear transparency, for they rather take the crooked path that leads to the obscure and secret worlds of awry political and financial ventures and deals. When most of the politicians of the whole political spectrum get involved in murky financial affairs, it means that their behavior is perhaps a reflection of the country's cultural fabric, rendering a nation undeveloped, with their people bogged down in the squalor of poverty, and, sometimes, in a state of anarchy.
Objectively speaking, money, especially the material it is made of, has very little and
insignificant value, for it does not nourish you body tissue if you eat
it, nor is it good material to make a house or a bridge, or to protect your body from harsh weather conditions. It is not even good
enough to make a fire, for wood is a lot better than the paper a currency is printed on as it lasts longer. However people still use it, because money's real worth is intangible and invisible.
Money's worth
is symbolic and abstract, and it is the people who imbue it with an
intrinsic psychological value as they make it circulate from hand to hand in the wheel of transactional trade and exchange of necessary and vital goods to establish and/or maintain a civilization. Therefore, the most valued currencies in the history of mankind have been honesty and trust, with the former simultaneously giving rise to the latter. The people must trust any given political system for them to make the government-issued bills and coins flow around in society. Honesty and trust give worth and life to a rectangular piece of paper that makes goods move around, from place to place, to supply the demand and human needs, sparking new enterprises and economic activities.
But trust only emerges in the heart of human beings when their political and social leaders are instilled with honesty, which is the human virtue of telling the truth, of never embezzling the public money, and never betraying the nation, which is the people and their cultural fabric, politically organized under a sovereign State. And in order to be 100% honest, a human being must have mental integrity, which is the psychological capacity of being one indivisible whole. Only an idiot would trust a criptocurrency, which is the brainchild of greedy psychopaths who lack empathy and integrity. Only a moron would trust a currency printed by a sovereign country whose corrupt and lying politicians made an alliance with lunatic and deviant billionaires to enslave the people and violate the Constitution (which guarantees political stability), resorting to schemes and mass media pseudo-science stories of a fictional virus and disease to control the population through fear.
Instead of promoting patterns of thinking and behavior based on honesty, integrity, empathy and mutual trust, billionaires and corrupt politicians in the USA and Europe use mass media to promote deep-seated fear of germs, social alienation, hidden awry behavior, and distrust from one another to break and tear apart the traditional fabric of the Western Civilization culture, which has been based on liberty, not on tyranny; on freedom of speech, not on censorship and deletion of creative thoughts.
When, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln had fiat paper money printed for the first time, the people of the northern States decided to trust the greenback, because it was issued by a government they trusted. They trusted the Republican government because they saw in Abraham Lincoln a man of crystal-clear honesty, moral integrity, courage, and steel will to keep the nation in one whole piece. He was a man of action, not a man of pompous speech. He did not care about political correctness. He cared about the freedom and well-being of the people. He promised the people union and freedom, and the people trusted him, making the greenback circulate from hand to hand.
In 2020, the principles of social equality and the inalienable rights of man and of the citizen were put in the pillory of tyranny and boundless greed. Only rational men of psychological completeness and mental stability can smell the stench and see the whole necrotic picture woven by the corrupt to take over the world. In 2020, mankind was put behind a surgical mask that hides away and smother humanity. In every country, a warm smile was cloaked and sealed behind the iron curtain of a mask, in every country except Sweden, where they decided not to lockdown the population and enforce the mask, for their authorities have abided by the laws of the Swedish sovereign State that guarantee individual freedom and the human rights.
In Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Sweden the lowest numbered of the fictional disease cases were registered not because they implemented an effective health policy. They registered the lowest cases of the "disease"-infected people because they are honest enough not to juggle with the statistics and inflate the numbers. I suppose that the Swedish krona, the Japanese yen, the Taiwanese dollar, and the South Korean won are the only currencies to be trusted these days.
(by Carlos Benito Camacho, a self-taught man from Tucuman, Argentina)