on money (in the abstract)

[Joseph Tracy]

I too like the riff on irrational numbers , though there are many possible vectors of irrationality to be observed when people play with numbers.  Nevertheless you have Nixon bucks by the boatload to back up this argument. Actually we all have Nixon Bucks and that has turned out to be less fun than it seemed at the gleeful printing thereof.
On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Mark Kohut 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.....