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by posterboy 3599 days ago
Today, money is immaterial. Your argument, as poignant as it may be, doesn't follow.
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Money is immaterial?!? As Homer Simpson once said (to his brain): "money can be exchanged for goods and services" - like healthcare, education, important stuff....
> immaterial

> 1. Having no matter or substance.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immaterial

Pedantic and pathetic. I clarified what I meant by money, wealth.
which is not any less abstract and immaterial. There is no unit of wealth you could compare, or if there is, I'd like to know.
Postmodern bullcrap. Tell that to the homeless and malnourished in the US.
Is your idiocy also material? Maybe you should have it removed.

EDIT: Joking aside, the knowledge how to work a job is valuable, but immaterial. Undernourishment is often a matter of lack of the knowledge how to extract resources from the environment. Of course a lot of wealth is attained by theft. But what's theft of ideas, are ideas material wealth? Sure I'm talking semantics, I try to understand you. I don't assume you are totally wrong, I just tend to assume that my language faculty is sufficient to follow involved arguments. Often erroneously, but therefor I'm skeptic of others as well. I suppose the distinction between material and immaterial is largely immaterial, and the difference between abstract and concrete best hidden from conversation.