--> Lysander Spooner [1808-1887 ](Lebenslauf)

GOLD AND SILVER AS STANDARDS OF
VALUE:

THE FLAGRANT CHEAT IN REGARD TO THEM.

All the usurpation, and tyranny, and extortion, and robbery, and fraud, that
are involved in the monopoly of money are practised, and attempted to be
justified, under the pretence of maintaining the standard of value. This
pretence is intrinsically a false one throughout. And the whole motive for it
is to afford some color of justification for such a monopoly of money as
will enable the few holders of gold and silver coins (or of such other money
as may be specially licensed and substituted for them) to extort, in exchange
for them, more of other men's property than the coins (or their substitutes)
arc naturally and truly worth. That such is the fact, it is the purpose of this
article to prove……

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-->Spooner schreibt:

The first question, then, to be settled is this, - namely, what is that fixed or definite value (or something like a fixed or definite value) which gold and silver coins have, and which enables them to be used as standards for measuring the values of other things?
The answer is that the true and natural market value of gold and silver coins is that value, and only that value, which they have for use or consumption as metals, - that is, for plate, watches, jewelry, gilding, dentistry, and other ornamental and useful purposes.

Um den Irrtum zu sehen, muss man nur fragen, was denn der value for use ist. Dieser Wert (value for use) ist für jeden Menschen anders und wechselt noch dazu ständig in der Zeit. Es gibt also nicht so etwas wie einen true und natural market value. Der Wert von Gold und Silbermünzen ist nicht true und natural, sondern selbst das Ergebnis eines ständig wechselnden Bewertungsprozesses im Markt. Gold und Silber haben sich lediglich als am wenigsten schwankend herausgestellt und werden deshalb als standard for mesuring benutzt.

Gruß
RD