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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like nobody played much of a role at all until ol’ moneybags showed up. Money talks, bullshit walks as they say

    • JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s work that does the work, a tautology, I think using money as a proxy for work is a convenient hop and skip. When it comes down to a rigorous analysis (of the kind say a climate scientist does in a life-cycle assessment money is to vague a reason. What does it represent? Some amount of gold? Well, the US dollar is no longer pegged to gold à la Bretton Woods, how then does ‘money talk’?