[ExI] Money and Human Nature (was Re: Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal)

[spike]

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Vaj
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>.Money evolved quite a lot along history, as shown for instance by Money as
Debt <http://www.moneyasdebt.net/> , as well as those in control thereof and
its social function. I am not sure that some kind of "money", probably in
the form of accounting units records, should not be maintained, and in fact
it was even during the most radical socialist experiments, but this leaves
open to debate most significant issues affecting it.Stefano Vaj

 

 

During this discussion when some have commented about our need to get rid of
money, I thought of a memoir my neighbor dictated to me about the fall of
Vietnam.  She lived with her husband and three daughters during the final
days of Saigon as the communists closed in.  They were a relatively well-off
family: she was a French translator and bookkeeper for a French-owned bank,
her husband was a manufacturing technician.  Fearing instability, they
withdrew their savings and were holding it in the form of paper currency
hidden in their homes, very well hidden.

 

The communists took over the country.  She went to see if she could trade
any of the old currency for the new.  She was told the old currency was of
no value to them, to go find the people who issued it, most of whom were
dead or in prison, if she wanted to trade it for something of value.  Their
advice to her was to avoid being seen with that currency, being as it would
bring suspicion upon her and her family.  Mind reeling, she wobbled toward
the door.  On the way out, she saw some of the old currency in the waste
basket.

 

I am trying to imagine doing that with greenbacks, and seeing a pile of
hundred dollar bills in the trash.

 

spike   

 

 

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