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How money works - Inverted Passion
- "Money isn’t perfect. It has changed throughout history; it’s a technology that can be improved. In the modern era, it is failing us because it’s too universal. It draws our attention away from the communities that are the real sources of our wealth."
from Let’s Use New Forms of Money to Commit to Our Communities by Matt Prewitt
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It is this ability to know everything there is about money just by counting it that makes money appear so straightforward and concrete. And yet, almost nothing is more symbolic in its very nature. Money only has meaning as something that stands for something else, as a social phenomenon, as part of a web of interpersonal obligations, and as a symbo
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Money is defined and functional only in terms of how it interacts within the economic/social matrix that ties us together. It's meaning is tied to a web of exchange.
From "Full Pockets, Empty Lives" -Watchel 2003