Money is the Map

value is something that’s based on a social context. The value given to a one-dollar bill is not an objectively attributed value, though that might be a commonsense approach. If one considers its actual cost as printed material, the value is nowhere near a dollar.

If using money and prices is an instrument for signalling preferences in an economy, it is an extremely blunt one that loses all of the finer details and qualities of what we as humans actually care about should we be given the opportunity to stop and think about it. What our dependence on money shows is that we have a monoculture of value expressi