I just brought the up . I can ' t imagine a situation where Miguel turns out to be the good guy , but this show is so good at surprises that I know it ' s going to happen . I think Thanksgiving was a glimpse of that . <| sep |> WE STOPPED THEM ! <| sep |> Either all the assets would be converted to one item US Dollars or gold , or whatever . And no one can live on gold or paper dollars . They need to be exchanged for useful assets . Or we each would have different assets cars , gold , houses , food , etc and we would still need to exchange those items to get what we want . Rather than needing to find someone who will take my 10 chickens for his bicycle , it would be much easier to swap my chickens for an item that everyone accepts and exchange that item for a bike . That ' s how paper currency originally came about . It was a lot less hassle to carry about and could be used anywhere .