Re:“I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror”
by tripzilch on Thursday January 01, 2015 @12:50PM
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> Money is a social construct, and therefore not materially real. If all human beings disappeared tomorrow dollars/merits/etc. would cease to have real-world efficacy.
But so would couches. Without humans they're just ... things, without any implied use of being sat on.
Re:“I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror”
by Evolved on Thursday January 01, 2015 @03:26PM
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I think he means not necessarily that it's a social construct but that it is intrinsically valueless and serves no purpose without human existance whereas a couch could be used for at least some other purpose than sitting on.
I thought the deeper point was, perhaps, that everyone has their price. That nothing, not even the very things people think are "radical" or "revolutionary", escapes the logic of money. That everything can be commodified and turned to serve the very system they try to escape.