on money (in the abstract)

[Richard Fiero]

Alice, you seem to be a little unfamiliar with Pynchon. I suggest 
that you start with Inherent Vice and among other things note the 
oligarch and the remarks make by the Jefferson medallion from the 
restaurant wall. With respect to advancing technology, you may enjoy 
the progress in AtD of ever-increasing surveillance and ever more 
efficient means of humans killing each other.

alice wellintown wrote:
>This is not a war. It is human adaptation, co-evolution, if you
>prefer,  or simply response to opportunities Those who can monopolize,
>regardless of the waste they produce and how much damage they do, are
>the fittest. But, with the revolution in communications technologies,
>those who were exploited because they were unaware of how the fittest
>came to monopolize, are now more aware. And, because they now sense
>that they need to defend themselves, they are doing so. We adapt by
>culture, by attitude, with technology. We copy certain patterns in
>evolution and then speed them up. So we have rockets instead of
>Plastic Man arms that can stretch across continents.
>
>Money will survive. So will the banks, the investment houses, the
>political systems. So will, in the short term, an impoverished world
>for those who now call themselves the 99% or whatever percent, who
>are, for the most part, folks who are better off than most and only
>now realizing that this is not their birthright and that they need to
>fight to keep this position in the world. This is war.
>
>Can you live without it? Are you fit for that? I doubt it.