04-13-2021, 08:13 PM
OK. Ed owns a restaurant, and Jack is a barber. The exchange-value of a steak dinner at Ed's restaurant is about the same as the value of a haircut by Jack. Exchanging a steak dinner for a haircut might not be practical at the moment. Money is simply a surrogate. Jack may not be hungry when Ed wants a haircut, and Ed might not want to serve Jack a steak dinner in a barbershop.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.