Books Read: Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein 📚

In archaic times, Seaford observes, power was conferred by unique talismanic objects (E. G., A scepter said to be handed down from Zeus), money is the opposite: its powers confirmed by a standard sign that wipes out variations in purity and weight. Quality is not important, only quantity. Because money is convertible into all of the things, it infects them with the same feature, turning them into commodities – – objects that, as long as they meet certain criteria, are seen as identical. All that matters is how many or how much.