[DanielBMarkham]

You own your opinions and decisions, right? Can those be removed from you? Your influence in the community?

You're correct on the stamps issue. I broadened the scope a bit just to drive the point home in a reasonable amount of text. If you own no physical objects, you can't accumulate or barter them.

But that doesn't mean you don't own anything. Or that scarcity goes anywhere. Or that you and other people can't pool/coordinate these non-tangible things you control to create and influence real, live, physical things. It's just easier to reason about when it's stamps. That's all. The beauty of money was that it allowed all of that pooling and coordination to happen in the abstract.