>>521080230
are an unusual kind of market world-historically, since most market activity down through the ages has consisted in exchanges of goods or services (like labor: a service) rather than through money, such that entire markets or distinct systems of trade have been non-monetary markets but instead ones based on exchanges of goods and services directly. Money is just a universal claim to goods and services where some amount of money equals some amount of a good or service in some place and time and the monetary value of the good or service at issue is determined by "market rationality," which is to say, by the aggregate expectations people have of what their good or service or right that they have on offer, to sell, is worth on the one side (the seller's side), and, on the buyer's side, consists of expectations for what some quantity of currency (currency is money denominated in widely recognized, in the best case officially sanctions, units, which facilitate transactions by standardizing the measures used to represent value, a la the universal exchangeability of all different goods and services on offer in a market, so that it is easier for buyers and sellers to figure how much of X is equal to an amount of Y etc. -- reckonings more readily performed when standardized units of currency exist than in systems of straightforward barter), such that the market, like a supercomputer processing gigantic quantities of data inputs transformed into information, does something quite similar in processing huge quantities of expectations for what should be exchanged for a good or service (the market-computer's data inputs) into valuations that are equalities between X amount of A-type good or service and Y amount of B-type good or service (the outputted information from all the processed data in the computer analogy), with monetary values measured in units of currency being the simplest way to measure goods' and services' values relative one another.