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had yielded its inequities earlier to the translating power of the
differential calculus. In a word, the fragmentation of the inner
life by prices seemed as mysterious in the eighteenth century,
as the minute fragmentation of space by means of calculus
had seemed a century earlier.
The extreme abstraction and detachment represented by
our pricing system is quite unthinkable and unusable amidst
populations for whom the exciting drama of price haggling
occurs with every transaction.
Today, as the new vortices of power are shaped by the
instant electric interdependence of all men on this planet, the
visual factor in social organization and in personal experience
recedes, and money begins to be less and less a means of
storing or exchanging work and skill. Automation, which is