Adam Smith's "The Wealth Of Nation" presented the origin of money by society. Now I modestly developed a model on how money impacted individuals in societies, using a parallel with marbles:
1 Joy -> first possession, might it be earned or given, but the value remain abstract.
2 Exercising pleasure -> first purchase, and the realization that money has a real tangible value that can buy things (such as a game of marbles...).
3 Codification -> first negotiation, and the realization that the value given to money is not fixed and can be discussed.
4 Belonging -> first invitation, and the realization that money can open the doors of certain group within the society to the individual.
4 Alienation (it comes together with belonging) -> first rejection, and the realization that lack of money can close doors of certain parts of the society to the individual.
5 Desire -> first jealousy, and the realization that the lack of money prevents the individual from getting what she/he wants.
6 Obsession -> the first time money starts losing it's rational and tangible value as a mean to an end for the individual, and become an irrational end in itself.
7 Need -> first time the individual is acting to earn money for the sake of money, without ulterior and clear motives. This cements money as an end and no longer a mean to an end.
8 Conflict -> first contradictions between the mean and the end, that can lead to the individual working against other individuals or even societies, in order to secure money.
9 Constraint -> first time the need for money is so strong that it actually prevents the individual from exercising its value.
10 Misplaced power -> when money is collected by the individual to the point it is no longer used to exercise its value, it becomes useless and worth nothing...
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