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What’s a little ironic about this is that debts and ledgers predate “money” (in fact they predate writing) and were an innovation of the Bronze Age civilizations, specifically the Temple setting of weights and measures along with record keeping (the aforementioned debts and ledgers). So while the current arrangement doesn’t require “faith” exactly (it’s probably better to characterize it as a set of expectations about how institutions and other individuals within the system behave) it very much emerged from and owes its genesis to faith traditions long since abandoned.

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Jens Martignoni's avatar

Hi Brett, exciting how you develop this track! Your articles are best about money I read! Indeed, money has something to do with the "I" and the "everyone else". And it has something to do with contributions and subscription rights and therefore with distribution and distributive justice. A thing that is denied strongly by contemporary neoliberal ideology. Hope to read more soon. Regards.

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