Atdtda22: [43.1i] Unskilled labour, 615

[Paul Nightingale]

[615.2-4] "... Kit was summoned to the local branch of the Bank of Prussia
in the Weenderstrasse and beckoned into its back regions by Herr
Spielmacher, the International Manager, hitherto friendly enough but today,
how would you put it, a little distant."

Der Spieler: player/gambler

Der Spielmacher: key player or playmaker


There are a large number of occupations in modern cities, such as certain
categories of general and trading agents and all those indeterminate forms
of livelihood in large cities, which do not have any objective form and
decisiveness of activity. For such people, economic life, the web of their
teleological series, has no definite content for them except making money.
Money, the absolutely entity, is for them the fixed point around which their
activity circulates with unlimited scope. It is a peculiar kind of
'unskilled labour' compared with which what is usually characterized as
unskilled is still highly qualified.

[...]

Those people who pursue the most divergent opportunities to make money lack
that predetermined distinctiveness in their lives to a much higher degree
than the banker, for whom money is not only the final purpose but also the
raw material of his activity, and as such can in time give rise to specific,
prescribed directives, particular constellations of interests, and traits of
a specific professional character.

From: Georg Simmel, The Philosophy of Money, ed David Frisby, Routledge,
2004, 433. 


[615.19-22] "He slipped outside, doubled down a few back alleys, and entered
the Bank of Hannover ... insulated, he hoped, from any Vibe arrangements."

Obviously, location is all.