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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