Re: [ox-en] There is no such thing like "peer money"

• From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
• Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:00:53 +0200

Hi Samuel and all!

Last month (55 days ago) Samuel Rose wrote:

Some metric of value almost always seems to emerge among people once groups
scale up over around 12-25 people or so. So, it seems that among humans,
some form of currency is almost inevitable, based on how often it tends to
emerge. It serves a role, at least being representative of what some-to-all
collectively find valuable.

I think you are not fully correct here. Of course people value things
or they don't. Whether there is a metric - which for me basically
means a facility to project the feeling to a number - is to me highly
questionable. In fact such a metric would abstract from concrete
feelings. This is the very source of alienation.


						Grüße

						Stefan

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