• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    23 days ago

    It’s not the easiest way to start thinking about money, but I’ve come to like thinking about it as a form of potential energy.

    At the end of the day it is used to inspire work from another, even if it ends up in a billionaires hand that does no work, they use it in turn to inspire the work of others. Even as payment after the fact, the promise of the payment is the inspiration to do some form of work.

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        23 days ago

        It wasn’t meant to appear that way. I wasn’t trying to speak of the supposed billionaire in a good fashion, just that at the end of the day money is only used to get someone to do something which even the billionaire needs to do as they don’t labor, others do on their behalf. In the case of the billionaire it’s actually a huge issue in this respect as they have a massive amount of potential energy to inspire a ton of work that could be, and is, used against us.

        Even if the person has already done the work, they did it for the promise of money they can then use to have someone else do something (or have already done something and are trading the fruits of their labor for the “energy deficit.”)

        The promise of money is the inspiration to expend energy.