Money as a symbol of desire

[Harry Veeder <aa361@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Hyman Blumenstock wrote:
> However, since the end of the Agrarian era, there has been more than
> enough to feed us all.  So, that should have signalled the demise of
> Economics the Science of Scarcity with its Rube Goldberg, far removed
> from reality ultra complicated mechanism, that serves counter to its
> original purpose, by using a once surrogate for Food, Money, and
> arbitrarily declaring that to be in scarce supply, as Food once was.


Money means everything and nothing. It functions as a *symbol* of collective
and individual desires-- food desire or any other desire.

Harry Veeder