Money started off as a way of managing distanced distribution from the center—providing tokens of contributions or expected contributions to the center by social participants in sustained cooperative projects (which is what any social order essentially is). Specifically capitalist uses of money result from the center licensing moneyed agents to lend money to the center, which places the creation of money in control of those moneyed agents, makes the government dependent upon the money-making capacity of those agents, and leads to the propaganda promoting self-interest as the generative logic of social order and wealth. Turning the social order back into a collaborative project, then, taking into account the technology and means of communication and information creation, preservation and dissemination now available therefore entails thinking through the abolition of money, which can only serve centripetal purposes.
Data as Currency
Data as Currency
Data as Currency
Money started off as a way of managing distanced distribution from the center—providing tokens of contributions or expected contributions to the center by social participants in sustained cooperative projects (which is what any social order essentially is). Specifically capitalist uses of money result from the center licensing moneyed agents to lend money to the center, which places the creation of money in control of those moneyed agents, makes the government dependent upon the money-making capacity of those agents, and leads to the propaganda promoting self-interest as the generative logic of social order and wealth. Turning the social order back into a collaborative project, then, taking into account the technology and means of communication and information creation, preservation and dissemination now available therefore entails thinking through the abolition of money, which can only serve centripetal purposes.