Live Suite Dilemma

[Jay Vaughan]

> Only to a certain extent. As soon as products (food, air,
> housing, healthcare) get scarce - which is mostly from the
> beginning - money will start to be a manifestation of power.
>

Power is nothing more than that you can trust people will do things  
for you.


> Those for whom trust is a
>> staple upon which life in a society is based, usually do just fine
>> with money.
>
> Trust is not a foundation upon which life or a society can be
> based; trust is a result of a stable society.
>


If you can't trust someone, you have no society between you and them.   
Period.


>> No trust - in oneself, in ones fellow man == no money.
>
> I think this is a very wrong statement, and if it were true, it
> would be all the more reason to get rid of money.


We simply cannot trust each other, so we use money as a means to  
measure it.

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Jay Vaughan