Money is just a proxy for ordinary experience. Money is a synthetic token, what matters is how you manipulate it.
For example if you make $1/hour, and I have the freewill to charge you between $1 and $2 for an essential good, it just means money is a measure of how much of your time I want to take.
So a nice person take less of other people's time, and a nasty person takes more. Money is just the unit of measurement ...
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Addendum, 2025-12-31
Monetary ontology : extended note
Recently I illustrated that money is just a mechanism for quantifying time, for the purpose of trade between individuals. I pointed out that suppliers raising prices arbitrarily, is nasty, and reducing them arbitrarily is nice ... when demand is inelastic.
Some people took offense at this ... but you would only take offence at this, if you somehow believed that you were giving more time to anyone else, by demanding more of their time from the supplier.
"Greed is good", means taking more of everyone else's time is good.
"I don't need money", means expressing distance from consumption of other people's time.
"We spent quality time together," means we forwent opportunities to spend time, elsewhere.
These are just simple examples of what money is, how it works, and how we talk about it.
Psychosocially, money is time. Money has no other function to the individual user, but to increase one's own time, or to decrease someone else's, via trade.
There are other phenomena in monetary economies of course : some market phenomena can be catastrophic, by wasting more of everyone's time. Other times, markets phenomena reduce waste of everyone's time, and such phenomena are deemed socially positive environments. Money has no intrinsic value, so it cannot improve anyone's time : it can only used, more wastefully or less wastefully, with respect to theoretically ideal market efficiencies.
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