If money is made by humans why not make enough for every one to sustain themselv

Question:

If money is made by humans why not make enough for every one to sustain themselves?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Because money by itself does not have any value. The only reason you want those little green slips of paper is because people will give you cool stuff in exchange for them

Conceptually, money is a medium of exchange. It is a common commodity agreed upon by all members of a society as having value. That means that you can use it to buy something (such as food) or you can recieve it as payment for services (working for a living). Because money is a medium, it only has as much value as that which it can be traded for.

Printing more money does not increase the value of goods that it can buy, because the money itself doesn't have value. It's just a slip of paper. That's why you can't buy anything with monopoly money. Nothing in the world can transform the money in your pocket into food, goods, or anything useful. The only thing that does to the world is increase the number of paper slips the humans have in their pockets. The world and its bounty does not change wether you have 100 bucks in your pocket or 100,000 bucks in your pocket.