Kevin Simler

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 …

Money makes self-interest legible.

^^ flippant answer that I don’t think is the whole story, but seems an important part

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

thinking about the uncomfortableness of helping a friend move for money: you'd rather just have them "owe you." I suspect both sides benefit from the illegibility of the tx, & imagine if they tried to pay a "fair" price it would probably leave one (or both) feeling undervalued