Money existed before banks did; anything that can be exchanged for something else is money.
A well - mastered craft is money.
The ability to organize and facilitate exchange is money.
Small pieces of gold or silver are money.
A sack of potatoes is money — you trade it for a bucket of diesel and carry on.
A bucket of diesel is money — you trade it for a sack of potatoes, and your family eats for another month.
The bank is an invention we do not need — whether digital or analog.
We ourselves are the money; the bank is the vault where they lock us away so that we might serve as *their* money.
If we take away this possibility — simply by opting out of their society — they will go bankrupt and starve in no time, because they have nothing to offer in exchange other than what they steal from us.
