The ice cube analogy nails it, you don't need philosophical precision about why value erodes to know you shouldn't hold something that's melting. That's the whole point of money as an abstraction: it lets you act correctly without resolving the metaphysics underneath.
The ice cube analogy nails it, you don't need philosophical precision about why value erodes to know you shouldn't hold something that's melting. That's the whole point of money as an abstraction: it lets you act correctly without resolving the metaphysics underneath.