An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

Money grows out of this swapping. Once 20 yards of linen equal 1 coat, and every other good gets measured the same way, one good becomes the measure for all the rest. Gold took that job, and people came to treat its power as something natural to gold.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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