the opposite is not true however. you can rapidly convert space and time into large amounts of money e.g. you can sell 1000 acres of corn but also take out a loan based on your expected future earnings
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money allows the compression of activity but because activity itself it limited by space and time, money is also limited by space and time a million engineers or a million women is not going to produce a bridge/baby in an hour
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the difference between a capitalist mindset and a normie mindset is that capitalism sees this money as just a bunch of fun coupons. they represent promises of activity, nothing valuable intrinsically
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so while the normie see a large pile of money as a giant pile of safety and promises that they will be fed and housed and etc... the capitalist is concerned with what kind of ACTIVITY should be deployed
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now remember, money is concentrated activity. what’s the point of concentrating activity if you’re only going to release it again anyway? in a word: Focus
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money causes focus to be taken from one area and concentrated in another. in a sense, it’s zero-sum since total attention is limited. application of money causes a feeling of something being stolen as it is lowered in importance relative to what is focused on
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“virtuous” deployment of capital concentrates activity onto bottlenecks or “knots” in the system, releasing tension and improving the overall functioning of the system
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it is by nature unfair because it creates a pyramidal sharp shape that prioritizes and stack ranks in order to pierce into a specific future the “equal” flat surface area of a hammer is a poor chisel. it doesn’t create, it smashes and destroys
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this is because again. money is just concentrated activity for the purposes of redeployment into where it is needed. a good capitalist is like a good massage therapist. it’s not just about smacking the body with as much force as possible
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if money were fully equalized, there’d be no way to coordinate attention since you’d have to focus on everything simultaneously. this is literally the opposite of the definition of focus
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