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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Economists laugh when people believe they're moving away from the evils of money by not using "Dollar Bills".

You read a novel about a post-apocalyptic society where the government is giving out food vouchers just to try to maintain order, and people instantly start using the food voucher slips as currency.

Power dynamics, including the power of the person who farms the land, the person who trucks the food to a storehouse, the person who invests time and thought to design and builds the processing factory, can be expressed any number of ways. You just pick your poison about how you express that power.

[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Power depends on consciousness of one's capacities for power, and of others' capacities for power over oneself.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some.

Consciousness is often elusive.