There's something like a Coasean economics of pricelessness here. Any time you spend money in a meaning economy, you're paying to either start a relationship, continue a relationship, or end a relationship. Hello money, we-meet-again money, and goodbye/fuck-off money.
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Reference here is to my old post Economics of Pricelessness.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/08/12/the-economics-of-pricelessness/ …
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Also, older post, Bargaining with Your Right Brainhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/03/16/bargaining-with-your-right-brain/ …
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I'm fascinated by how people weave financial relationships and human relationships. People like Graeber (Debt) seem to see the former as fundamentally a contaminant of the latter, with "illegible credit" that's really just entangled lives as the gold standard (heh!) of relating.
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There is something to that position. Money injected into a relationship without thought is 10x more likely to screw it up than strengthen or deepen it. But it's possible. Arguably, a good marriage is in fact Exhibit A of the possibility.
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Blockchains are kinda the other extreme of money in some sense. Possibility of completely decoupling financial and human relationships. Though I can't think of examples. Just seems possible. Money in/value out without either individual humans or "branded" orgs as counterparty.
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