A while ago I read this excerpt about money in this book “Bit Rot” by Douglas Coupland - where he suggested that maybe money is a crystallisation, or homogenisation of time and free will into those things we call dollars and pounds and yen and euros.
That got me thinking, when I was a kid I asked my mom dumb questions all the time - Why is the bank charging us a heftier transaction fee because we aren’t “Premium” members? Why do we have to wait in a way longer and crowded line while Premium customers just chill at their Premium lounge and gets taken care of shortly? That woman seems very hardworking and honest, why is she barely making enough to feed herself? .... etc. Back then I was always puzzled by how banks would waive all these fees if you had a high enough balance in your bank account (meaning, a Premium or Executive member) while doing the exact opposite for their regular customers. I mean, why would you fleece the middle class/poor when you know they can barely afford it already? And if you are rich enough you probably don’t care about petty transaction fees anyway so why don’t you just charge them?
I couldn’t wrap my 14 yearold brain around those things at the time, but I guess it all makes sense now, if money multiplies your time and the number of things you can do, then here are the things I can do or can’t do…. Such as.... Let’s stop at that. I didn’t like math in high school and I don’t like it now. You feel me?
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