Worth remembering.

Doesn't help much, but worth remembering. Another idea I was first exposed to by the late, illustrious, R.A. Wilson.

The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2009:

"You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? WE MADE IT UP. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place."