Did I just realize that all money in our current form is credit and I never actually own anything? And whom ever controls the biggest source of credit controls the value of the "money" in my pocket at anytime? The only truly valuable thing is experience.
> Did I just realize that all money in our current form is credit and I never actually own anything?
You own whatever you exchange your money for, in the simplest terms. Even if it's a bitcoin or a "financial security" or a share or a chunk of gold, or indeed a pork-belly, an iPad etc. etc.
Is it any wonder? Any medium-of-exchange immediately becomes credit -- a claim on some unknown-person's future offering of something.
Everything else more-complicated derives from this inherent money-is-a-claim characteristic IMHO.
The medium truly is the claim, aka credit.