Money is just a signaling mechanism. We are taught to fetishize it and treat it as if it were a source of value. Actual elites aren't ruled by it. Actual elites are just containers in which the conditions of labor are sequestered away from labor itself, to preserve the order in which some aristocratic classes can monopolize leisure and externalize their petty discomforts onto servants.
But they want us to chase the money because it encourages us to measure ourselves by the wages they set for us.
I think actually it’s power that is the aphrodisiac here. You can only spend, eat, own, drive, etc so much money. It’s power that gets them off and always has been.
Money is just a signaling mechanism. We are taught to fetishize it and treat it as if it were a source of value. Actual elites aren't ruled by it. Actual elites are just containers in which the conditions of labor are sequestered away from labor itself, to preserve the order in which some aristocratic classes can monopolize leisure and externalize their petty discomforts onto servants.
But they want us to chase the money because it encourages us to measure ourselves by the wages they set for us.
I think actually it’s power that is the aphrodisiac here. You can only spend, eat, own, drive, etc so much money. It’s power that gets them off and always has been.