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Jiang says the coin metaphor presents faith as a heavy and valuable object carried within the self rather than as a mechanism for buying redemption.
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Money is the mechanism that persuades a person to spend years serving another person's ends rather than using that life-energy for reading, writing, fishing, or self-chosen activity.
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The real value in the system is human work, not money; money is the incentive fiction that extracts work.
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Jiang contrasts workers, who create value, with money, which he says only creates more speculative money.
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Jiang says money is not wealth but an illusionary storage and extraction mechanism that captures value created by focused human attention.
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He contrasts that market anthropology with a historical model in which humans are spiritual beings in community and make music to bring light to one another rather than to sell labor as a commodity.
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"Okay, all right, why is, okay, let's go on this, okay? There's a paradox, right? Faith is a coin. Why is that a paradox?..."
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"Okay? So you don't really do a serious job. You spend five days building me a house. It's a crappy house. So what I..."
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"and connected to the monad okay so the Mona is the totality of all Consciousness and so we're always connected to the monad and..."
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"...as well the more attention you pay to something the more value valuable it becomes the more wealth is generated okay and so money..."
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"...been brainwashed to believe that we are just commodities that already value is to produce labor for the free market. And the free market..."
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"...to make us work as hard as possible. Because the real value is not money. The real value is the work we do. Okay?..."
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"Doesn't. Create. Any. Value. Money. Just. Creates. More. Money. Okay. Speculative. But. The. Workers. Create. Value. The. Productive. And. Therefore. You. Have. To. Treat...."
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