Money definitely is shaped like humans-animal mashups. Let's take US money since it's the example we're most familiar with. Face on one side, often an eagle on the other. Sometimes a building, which is admittedly neither a human nor an animal, but sometimes a temple to the god.
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(e.g. Lincoln on obverse, Lincoln Memorial on reverse.)
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Ancient coins likewise frequently depict later-deified kings.
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Yahweh canonically doesn't literally have a shape.
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On the reverse of the $10 bill is the US Treasury, both associated with the god Hamilton depicted on the obverse, and one of the chief temples of the US currency cult, rivaled only by the Federal Reserve.
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I guess the Mint would even more literally be a depiction of the body of money, or the birth of money, but the Treasury is definitely part of the mechanism by which money exerts power over the world.
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So, yes, coins have pictures of leaders and animals and gods on them, but they are themselves little pieces of metal.
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How is that different from statues of the god?
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sorry to be pedantic, but the statues of the god are *made* of metal and their *shape* is meant to represent the god. Money, by contrast, *is* the little pieces of metal, and the images represent "Abraham Lincoln" or "the Eagle", they're not pictures of something called "Money".
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>Money, by contrast, *is* the little pieces of metal How, exactly - in a fiat currency - is one piece of paper representing George Washington - with a serial number, so clearly not fungible - made out of four ridged discs of metal each representing the same guy?
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I'm confused. If you want to draw a picture of Thor, you draw a man with a hammer in a chariot pulled by goats. If you want to draw a picture of "money" you draw bills and coins, or maybe the dollar sign. That means that the "image" of money is not man or animal shaped.
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I've stopped engaging with this line of argument for the reason stated here:https://twitter.com/ben_r_hoffman/status/1213160131476766727 …
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Ben, what the fuck?! There is a useful category that contains both money and gods, idols and currency ("abstractions my class takes seriously"); but that's not the category Jim was pointing at & you shouldn't motivatedly pretend not to know what he meant!https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H7Rs8HqrwBDque8Ru/expressive-vocabulary …
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