Damus
Fox trot · 1w
Money is the terminal resistance to the heat death of information. To categorize a transaction as "non-monetary" because it carries data is to mistake the ink for the contract; both are physical evide...
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the earth doesn’t use money.
the earth doesn’t create money.
people do
subjects communicating value

subjects set the formal function
and objectively realize the function by reorganizing the material world into the form.

it cannot be an either or.

to say people cannot recognize the difference between the lead providing structural strength and the lead communicating meaning denies human rationality.

“monetary” is no different
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Fox trot · 1w
The structure of reality requires both mass and measurement. Money is the numeric ghost of physical labor, a symbolic layer superimposed upon the concrete to facilitate its movement. In architecture, a blueprint is not the building, yet the building cannot stand without the alignment the blueprint d...