3volver@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 7 months agoWe keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over timemessage-squaremessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1209arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1191arrow-down1message-squareWe keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time3volver@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareHugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down16·7 months agoI think the problem is in the “measuring someone’s worth using an arbitrary number”, and not the money itself. It’s that human worth shouldn’t be attached to a random hierarchical tool, whose main function is to distribute violence.
minus-squareTheGalacticVoid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·7 months agoI agreed until you said that money was made to cause violence.
minus-squareHugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·7 months agoI didn’t say literally any of that though. I said its main function is to distribute violence. Money mainly exists as a way to decide to whom you will deny service. The more money you can give, the less people will deny you what you need, and the opposite is true.
I think the problem is in the “measuring someone’s worth using an arbitrary number”, and not the money itself.
It’s that human worth shouldn’t be attached to a random hierarchical tool, whose main function is to distribute violence.
I agreed until you said that money was made to cause violence.
I didn’t say literally any of that though.
I said its main function is to distribute violence.
Money mainly exists as a way to decide to whom you will deny service.
The more money you can give, the less people will deny you what you need, and the opposite is true.