From: Richard Plourde (rplourde@andesign.mv.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 1997 - 14:44:50 MDT
At 10:43 AM 9/16/97 -0700, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>"Money" is nothing more than an agreement among individuals to
abstract
>some valuable for convenience of trade. Those who oppose the
idea are
>just being stubbornly anti-social.
I agree -- but I think it worthwhile to emphasize that money (so
often described as a "medium of exchange") makes possible
impersonal cooperation. I don't have to know the farmer across
the country in order to 'trade' for his strawberries.
When I place money in the context of cooperation, I find such
expressions as "money is the root of all evil" *explainably*
bizarre.
-R
Richard Plourde .. rplourde@andesign.mv.com
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