[p2p-research] All Money is Fantasy

[Nathan Cravens]

So is Cascio on the post-scarcity bandwagon? Mmm? :)
Nathan

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Ryan <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jamais Cascio and Stow Boyd on "all money is fantasy."
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> All Money is Fantasy<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenTheFuture/~3/7Uzpy4Dqdls/all_money_is_fantasy.html>
> via Open the Future <http://www.openthefuture.com/> by Jamais Cascio on
> 10/13/09
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> [image: Future of Money.png]My friend Stowe Boyd, consultant and
> provocateur, interviewed me recently for his Future of Money project<http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/10/the-future-of-money-jamais-cascio.html>.
> The video of that interview is now available at Stowe's blog, /Message<http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/>
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> It's a good conversation, although I clearly haven't learned the blogger
> video conversation practice of simply talking over the person I'm conversing
> with. I'm far too polite.
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> I start with the observation that all money is fantasy. I laugh/sigh when I
> see "gold bugs" going on and on about how money should be tied to gold,
> because gold has "real value." The only intrinsic value that gold has
> relates to how we can use it (in electronics, mostly, or as meal garnish<http://www.wchstv.com/gmarecipes/celeryapplesoup.shtml>);
> its utility as *money* is just as imaginary, just as "fiat," as post-Bretton
> Woods <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system> currency. It's a
> mutually-agreed upon fantasy. A "consensual hallucination," to steal from
> Gibson.
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