Even broader Q is why people see money, at its core, as an evil rather than a tool for liberation, if it’s always been that way and, as we get collectively richer, if that will change.https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1136471975898091520 …
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^^ flippant answer that I don’t think is the whole story, but seems an important part
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riffing off this, I feel like it has something to do with the lossy nature of compressing value to a single dimension; value is illegible and there's a natural resistance [I think] toward imposing legibility
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Whoa, this has a lot of explanatory power! For the whole class of things where making money is “wrong” (friendship, sex, organ donation, charity), sell-side altruism/mutualism is morally prized. Money removes the claim to altruism but retains the act, so reads as a desecration.
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