When first hearing the stone money story I was very intrigued. Thinking about a place where word of mouth is stronger then actual evidence is almost mind blowing. Nowadays word of mouth is not worth very much, and we use things such as paper money with no actually value to purchase things. The difference between a fei and paper money are clear, with the fei it would take time and effort to make, it was something to be proud of. With paper money there is no background, no purpose, no value except for the value that you chose to give it. Maybe thats why with a fei word of mouth was acceptable, to be giving away something so important without even actually owning it just being able to say you posses it is good enough. All of this can be backed up by the information located in Milton Freidmen’s Stone Money essay. The way that stone money is looked at can be compared to the situation were the U.S  placed gold in vaults marked France, proving it was their gold, without actually moving it. This makes us think about money and the actual importance of it. Does money really need to play such a large part in society? What if we used currency such as fei, how would that affect people. In relation to the fake money in Brazil, that just proves how much money can affect a society. You can fix a whole nation by just pretending that money is available. Money is such a large idea in todays world. Without money many things are impossible, you basically can not live a happy life without money.