on money (in the abstract)

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks......some common ground......(before the tragedy of the commons)?!
 
I don't have time either which is why I just bloviate......

From: Michael F <mff8785 at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: on money (in the abstract)


Mark,
I am in complete agreement with your commentary on Against the Day.  Too bad I dont have time today to augment it right now with the text or a reasonable account.  I'll try to make time later on.
Mike
On Nov 21, 2011 9:08 AM, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

Money nowadays may be a shared delusion, but as Simmel and all grounded economists
>know, even in the most basic societies----small group (village/) of yeoman farmers, say---if
>one basically self-sufficient farmer trades one crop for another or from the family that raises
>chickens, then the medium of exchange can be called money. That's a message.......
> 
>Money can be called metaphysical, existential.....like space as Paul said and time....
> 
>And, if that small family village produced a surplus and could trade it or store it---see marx and an allusion in Lot49----
>then they have created some kind of measurable 'wealth'.......
> 
>If the villagers want even one person to do something that is not farming and he needs to eat, he gets 'paid' somehow
>That's money....
> 
>Here's more outrageuos pynchon-linking specuation that y'all can pick apart and make fun of:  irrational numbers'
>shit in Against the Day might be---okay, are, I say---linked to all kinds of ways money---and other shit abstractions----
>get so uprooted from basic reality that they are----irrational......
> 
>like now.....
>
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