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b'We have been taught to think that when something is scarce, then the value goes up, but should it? Because I\'m looking at human beings and I\'m thinking about the 99% not being valued. And the 1% that are valued, the 1% that have the majority of the currency, the majority of the money in our society, how come they are in that state and how come the 99% are so undervalued?!\\nBut if you really think about it, we are more valuable than the 1%. And I think that we\'re not treated as valuable because we are so disconnected from one another. That\'s my personal theory that if we were truly to connect with one another energetically and physically, that if we shared our \\xa0ideas and we helped each other out,\\xa0 the 1% would have no power.\\nDoes that make any sense to anybody? \\xa0And then I\'m thinking about money and the value of a person. And what is money? Is it a tool? \\xa0Of course it is. But is it a tool for manipulation? Has some piece of paper, coin, or ethereal coin crossed the line over to manipulation and how we make money? \\xa0How does that all work? Is it done with integrity or greed or desperation? How does self-esteem play a factor?\\nI would like to use the Socratic method by asking questions for us to get somewhere in our conversations where we can figure things out. I really believe we can figure out a way. Socrates often asked questions that went against the traditions and reflections of Athens. And so we may ask, I may ask certain questions, but I mean, no disrespect. I\'m trying to understand things and I\'m trying to understand a way for us all to come together again.\\nThis roundtable takes us through politics, the economy, self-worth, ethics and a bit of history as we ask questions and define some important terms in order to create change.\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nTRANSCRIPT:\\n[00:00:00] Fawn: [00:00:00] Hello, everyone. Welcome to our round table. Connected.\\nMatt: [00:00:04] Hello?\\nHi everybody. Today we have Paul. We have Katie.\\nKaty: [00:00:11] Hi,\\nFawn: [00:00:11] we have Beth.\\nBeth: [00:00:13] Hi, everybody.\\nFawn: [00:00:14] And we have KJ. Okay. KJ is on the road you guys, she is driving. Uh, well, she\'s in the passenger seat, but she\'s in a car. All right. Today\'s show is currency. What is it?\\nMatt: [00:00:29] What is it?\\nFawn: [00:00:30] All right. I\'ll give you some definitions. Currency is a medium of exchange. By the way our round- table is about connected. We\'re all connected. We are interconnected and our conversations revolve around how we are truly interconnected. And one of the ways in which we are connected is through currency.\\nSo I want to talk about that and it\'s not just money either. And you\'ll see we\'ll get into it. So currency is a medium of [00:01:00] exchange for goods and services in the form of some material. It can be paper, money, coins, et cetera, issued by a government and generally accepted at its face value as a method of payment.\\nSo there, it has like five definitions for currency. If you look it up, it\'s something that is used as a medium of exchange, like money. It is, something that is generally accepted, a general acceptance, prevalence and Vogue, whatever is in vogue. The third definition is a time or period during something that is widely accepted, and circulated.\\nSo a time period, right; like current events. The fourth definition is the fact or quality of being widely accepted and circulated from person to person. Circulation, as of coin is the fifth one. [00:02:00] And then when I looked at "current", it is passing in time belonging to the time actually passing like current events.\\nIt is something that is prevalent or customary. It is something that is popular. It is som'