Scarcity, then, is mostly an illusion, a cultural creation. But because we live, almost wholly, in a culturally constructed world,
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Money, which has turned abundance into scarcity, engenders greed
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The new kind of money that emerged in ancient Greece derived its value from a social agreement, of which the marks on coins were tokens.7
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money is the opposite: its power is conferred by a standard sign that wipes out variations in purity and weight. Quality is not important, only quantity
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Money, says Seaford, “promotes a sense of homogeneity among things in general.”
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we have become so used to the replaceability of all things that we behave as if we could, if we wrecked the planet, simply buy a new one.
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feel a distancing, a letdown, in the phrase, “You can always buy another one.”
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illuminating the characteristics that make money unique. Among them are that it is both concrete and abstract, that it is homogeneous, impersonal, a universal aim, and a universal means, and that it is unlimited.
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this abstraction has become more important than the physical vehicle,
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the primacy of the abstract
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