Seems to me like most currency assumes death in some form, directly or indirectly
Money is printed - requires the death of a tree
Food is necessary for survival, requires death of animal or plant
Shelter is built from life, wood, death
I am trying to think of forms of currency that doesn’t require death. perhaps a sexual currency
This monkey will give you a pretty rock for sex… although I guess I ate to make my splooge. That orgasm came from death… and arguably the pretty rock
Maybe that doesn’t work so well
Digital currencies perhaps? Trading abstractions for other abstractions might work… but when it doesn’t boil down to something real… I don’t think “my abstraction is a higher number (number serves purpose of abstraction) than your abstraction” will work well… Trading beauty perhaps. qualitative
I’m at a loss