How do you like this idea:
Money is the scaling solution for division and specialization of labor work.
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Discussion
This is a pretty accurate statement and super succinct. My past problem with this framing is that I don’t think it garners much feeling or association in the average person.
In other words this seems like a super distant, “ok but why do I care” sort of explanation as it applies to the typical normie. Which seems obviously insane to me, lol.
Either way this is a great way to explain money’s role in society, essentially it’s scaling society above everything larger than the Dunbar’s number where simple social credit isn’t sustainable. Ie. Community existed before money, society can only exist after.
I like to frame it as, if you’re not going to deal with other people by voluntary trade, that is, barter, payment with mutually agreed upon money, or just not interacting with them in the first place, the only other choice is for people to deal with each other by force.
You can delegate that force to politicians, tax agencies, and their enforcers (police), but you can’t hide it.
Yes. The "ok, but why do we care" is that what bothers me. I had such a conversation today.
People moan how not enough money they have, and at the same time, they are not even prepared to think or research what money even is and how does it work in society.