expression thereby. Does not this stress how money, or any 
medium whatever, is constituted and made efficacious? When 
men become uneasy about such social values achieved by 
uniformity and repetition, doing for mankind that which 
mankind wants, we can take it as a mark of the decline of 
mechanical technology.

      “Money talks” because money is a metaphor, a transfer, 
and a bridge. Like words and language, money is a storehouse 
of communally achieved work, skill, and experience. Money, 
however, is also a specialist technology like writing; and as 
writing intensifies the visual aspect of speech and order, and as 
the clock visually separates time from space, so money 
separates work from the other social functions. Even today 
money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into 
the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber. As a vast