[redahs]

In order for money to be both real and useful it should be secured by unencumbered interest in durable real property.

The simplest way to circulate commercial paper for daily transactions is the Benjamin Franklin paper money system which involves appointing public loan officers throughout a nation to issue equity loans to anyone in possession of unencumbered interest in durable real property which they are willing to pledge as collateral which the public can auction in the event of non-payment.

This way money is placed in circulation so that the interest paid for the first use of legal tender is publicly collected and immediately spent back into the economy and so that the total quantity of money expands dynamically in proportion to the aggregate quantity of physical durable capital.

[maest]

Competing theories say that the main value of monetary tokens comes from the government's monopoly on violence. What I mean is that governments ask taxes to be paid in tokens that they issue (pounds, dollars etc) and they threaten you with jail / physical violence if you don't pay. Governments then issue these tokens and pay people in order to employ them. Under this model, money is devoid from the value of the asset backing it (in the case of fiat money, no such asset actually exists).

[Qworg]

Why? This is unnecessarily encumbering the utility of money.

Real and Useful: people can use the money as a store of value, medium of exchange, and a unit of account - and enough people believe in it.

[redahs]

Because allowing new public legal tender to be created on security of fictitious capital such as speculative land values and deposits of credit created by other banks is accounting fraud, transfers wealth from the poor to the rich, creates speculative bubbles in financial asset markets, promotes disinvestment in the real economy, decreases demand for labor, inflates the price of land relative to wages for unsupervised labor, and worsens inequality.

[CryptoPunk]

The only reason inflated valuations based on speculative hype, i.e. your 'fictitious capital', are able to redistribute wealth from the productive economy to rent-seeking interests is that parties taking irresponsible risks are bailed out by government programs that socialize losses. These programs are sold to the public as making the market safer for consumers:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w22223

[pjc50]

There is no way of distinguishing between a "real" and "speculative" land value.