I've been spending some time lately trying to pound through my thick head, what money in our modern reality, really is. It was interesting to find an article that relates it to the Objective definition of Altruism.

From the article.---
"John Maynard Keynes, the darling of modern economic theory in the United States, made a very revealing statement in his 1919 book, Economic Consequences of the Peace. He wrote:
If government should refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud upon the people can be concealed no longer.
Keynes was simply saying that the people must be made to believe that the “income tax” system produces income rather than what it is — namely, a system of regulation. So when you write a check to the IRS, you are certainly involved in regulating (reducing) your consumption.
So the term “income tax” is totally misleading. The words do not refer to a tax or income but a system of regulation. No matter what our thoughts are on human liberty, our lives are controlled by this rot of deception.
What are other purposes of the “income tax”? The income tax deception is compounded by the ideas of “Federal budgets” and “Federal debt.” There is no Federal debt. The term “Federal debt” implies that we owe the amount stolen from us. An entity that creates credit out of nothing and “pays” it for real assets and production is not assuming a debt by any definition. It is stealing and calling the theft debt. The creation and control of all credit in the hands of a central bank (government) is the fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto. Look honestly at the American monetary system and you are looking tyranny and slavery in the face.
The “income tax” is used to redistribute wealth from the producers to non-producers, i.e., “income taxes” and estate taxes. The “income tax” is used to express and enforce public policy. It is the foundation of socialism.
The Social Security system is the same system as the “income tax.” Social Security is paid out of created credit money. It is not in any sort of “trust” and it is not “funded.” It is a giant Ponzi scheme.
What happens to those checks that you write to the IRS? The numbers on those checks are computer symbols that disappear from the system. This is what regulates the money supply.
Editor’s note: Some readers have been critical of the way I have used the word “altruism.” Never mind the dictionary definition; altruism is a morality based on the philosophical premise that man lives for the sake of others… that man’s life and property are available for sacrifice to “higher causes, e.g., the common good the public interest, society, the needy, the world, God, country.” In practice, it’s who will sacrifice whom. You guessed it. It’s the non-producer political power transferring the wealth, production and the public will to itself. They do this with great ease once they instill altruism in the public mind with the concept of groupism and the loss of individuality."