apple orchard owner. If
you lived in Boston and all you ate were Big Macs, having part of your paycheck paid in
time-limited, Boston-only, non-transferrable Big Mac ... more
valuable to you than yen since the exchange rate and the price of Big Macs might
fluctuate. Context is everything.
We have become accustomed to the notion that things ... even in the same locality, the home or the email or the
Big Mac might have different "values" to different people. However, the prevalence of
money and price