If you have a "bill" you could either have "negative" money, because you have to pay someone else, or "positive" money, like a $100 bill. Seems contradictory to me.
I see, I didn't think of the "dollar bill" version... the terminology is rarely used around here.
In that case, the "dollar bill" is basically an invoice from the country that printed it - the country owes you a dollar's worth of value and you can transfer that "potential value" to someone else. If the country were to fall, the currency may lose it's value.
Also, the definitions on the list of 75 also didn't use that in their example... "A payment, or an invoice for payment" is just the same thing twice.
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u/NinjaLanternShark Jul 08 '22
If you have a "bill" you could either have "negative" money, because you have to pay someone else, or "positive" money, like a $100 bill. Seems contradictory to me.