For some reason this idea is blowing my mind rn: People can be roughly fungible, but relationships aren’t fungible. ‘If I didn’t have you, somebody else would do’ (thanks Tim Minchin!) But once I have you, and spend 10 years building a relationship, someone else will not do.
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That said, since the survival of a relationship depends upon goods that do have prices—travel, shelter, etc. there is already implicit economic pressure on relationships. But the “exchange rate” between those pressures and one’s emotions is completely subjective.
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Maybe that’s what would make it possible—the market would have at least as many currencies as there are people, and each person would maintain their sovereignty over their personal choices by setting their personal exchange rates.
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