Money is the World's Largest Religion

Human beings study several sciences: physics, mathematics, biology, ethics, and of course economics. When we look at an object in physics, one of the more 'real' sciences you could say, depending on the perspective in question, we can determine and assign it several properties: things like mass, height, length, inertia, density. However, in recent years, we've added a property to that list: cost. Cost is commonly the first aspect we look at, especially nowadays in our state of economy. But what is it? To answer that we must ask what is currency.

A friend of mine named Shawn has more money than most people I know, so when he told me what money was, it surprised me coming from someone who had so much of it. He told me, money is a promise. It's a promise that because you gave me some item or service, someone else in a similar society will give you an item or service of equal value. But then what is value? It might be measurable, but how so? We can measure weight, and dimensions, and the like, without question. But value is something different. It's a psychological phenomenon, a process in the brain in which the human undergoes some equation to calculate how much currency the asset in question is worth. It's not a real thing, it's an imaginary game. However, the ritual of applying value to assets has become so widespread, along with the trade of, accumulation, or at least obsession over currency, it reaches every corner of the planet. It's a mental process which we use to justify actions such as sacrifice and war and the joining of labor systems which consume our health and life, all for the dollar. Money is truly a religion is every aspect.