“Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.”
This book delves into the philosophical underpinnings and economic principles of capitalism, analyzing its role in shaping modern society and the individual's place within it. more
“The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.”
“I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.”
“The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.”