sheashannara

Unfortunately it really is more complex than that.  Many things have genuine scarcity built in.  Take housing: we have housing literally decaying from neglect.  But it's not the housing people need or want.  I could sell my house in DC and with the equity buy up something twice as big in Detroit with 100K left over.  Away from every friend I have, away from all family.  Away not just from the basis of my business, but from work opportunities most suited to me capacities and desires.  Which is the great thing about money: it's just a tool to make all that stuff fungible.  The problem isn't money, any more than the problem with a leaky roof isn't that a saw was used to build it.  The problem in our economy is that someone keeps using the saw to cut holes in it.

@fullfeeling with a rusty pitchfork!

... and torches...

This is true.