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"Emerging from the earth’s bowels, these things, gold and silver, incarnate, at once and directly, all human labor. Hence the magic of money. Human beings now behave in a purely atomistic way in their social production process, and their own relations of production have a thingly form independent of their control and conscious individual action;" — Feb 22, 2025 10:37PM
"Emerging from the earth’s bowels, these things, gold and silver, incarnate, at once and directly, all human labor. Hence the magic of money. Human beings now behave in a purely atomistic way in their social production process, and their own relations of production have a thingly form independent of their control and conscious individual action;" — Feb 22, 2025 10:37PM
“When the devil does actually appear, the best option is calmness and rationality.”
― The Dark Forest
― The Dark Forest
“One of the puzzling things about all the theories about the origins of money that we’ve been looking at so far is that they almost completely ignore the evidence of anthropology. Anthropologists do have a great deal of knowledge of how economies within stateless societies actually worked.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“Regardless of the content of the broadcast, if a civilization’s language was listed in the broadcast, it meant that the civilization still existed or had existed once and lasted so long that it had left an indelible mark in the great universe.”
― Death's End
― Death's End
“Keynesian orthodoxy started from the assumption that capitalist markets would not really work unless capitalist governments were willing effectively to play nanny: most famously, by engaging in massive deficit “pump-priming” during downturns.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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