Did you read yourself the part by the link you posted?
People easily forget that money is only an intermediary which is not worth anything on its own, without the "underlying". And being only that, we can remove it from the equation completely and when we do so, we come to understand that it is the economies that matter and their strength, not money or debt representing them. In other words, if fiat monies are going to die, the American dollar will be the last to kick the bucket due to sheer size of the US economy
That's an interesting take. But damn, if money isn't worth anything on its own, why do I have to pay so much in taxes?
Maybe, because it is not on its own here and your taxes will be spent on whores, yachts and drugs?
Someone said fractional reserve did no longer exist, to which I replied that that was ludicrous. FDIC, FSB, FED, FRS, IRS, FBI, NFL, MLB whoever is in charge of it I don't know.
About The Pharmacist's mention of taxes as if that guaranteed some intrinsic value to money: I didn't reply earlier, on purpose, because that doesn't really make any sense.
A simple example may illustrate this better.
Disney sells tokens you can spend within Disney parks. Like the FED issues Treasury notes you can spend within USA.
Disney charges fees for certain activities. USA charges taxes for certain activities.
Just like Disney tokens do not have any intrinsic value other than Disney backing it, even though you can pay fees with those tokens, the same happens to the Treasury notes we happen to call US Dollars.
There's nothing intrinsic about the dollar. We can pay taxes using it because it's the tokens the taxman himself issued via his magical money department we call FED.
The moment average folks understand this is the moment they'll start to understand the fact that the FED simply prints these Treasury notes by issuing one simple database command.
US Dollars are simply a line in a secure database. Today there exist 1 bazillion, tomorrow magically there exist a bazillion plus one trillion. That's how the FED works. They magically create money out of thin air.
Average folks seem reluctant to grasp this simple fact.
They think oh man, the US power is so immense, USA can't use a magical currency issued by a sacred entity that puffs money out of thin air!
Well, that's exactly what it is.
There are over U$ 250 trillion in DEBT in the world today. Nobody's gona pay this debt.
Either they'll start big wars or come up with some other excuse to "solve" this 250 trillion U$ debt bomb. Nobody except The People pay the bill for this absurd system.