Money evolved as a social contract and accounting device, but in our reductionist, goal oriented world view, we have come to see it as a commodity to mine from society and store.

Contrary to Econ 101, a medium and a store are not interchangeable. For example, blood is a medium, while fat is a store.

The political convenience of our individualistic ethos is the resulting atomized society is more easily controlled by institutional authority and its efforts harvested through parasitic exchange mechanisms.

Networks matter as much as the nodes inhabiting them.