Money as compensation for work is an absurd mental model to have right now. Go brrr is changing the fundamental meaning of money. I don’t know what it means anymore.
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William I Thompson had some useful ways of thinking about the changing nature of money:
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Cultural historian William Irwin Thompson proposed a couple of useful metaphors for this kind of refactoring of money: money as an atmospheric gas, like oxygen
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Understanding the USD vs money vs other currency gives a person the ability to play the game with cheat codes.
Also allows boxing in those that don't get it. "Your tax dollars blah blah" or "We can't pay for it unless you give up x"
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Money seems representative of power dynamics. (Among other things.) Nothing has changed in that sense, aside from the "trick" / prestige being momentarily revealed.
Unfortunately wtf that actually means in a functional sense is another story, I imagine a long one.










