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johnny9fingers ([personal profile] johnny9fingers) wrote2012-12-05 12:58 pm
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The other Vienna

1      The marketplace is all that is the case.
1.1   The marketplace is the totality of goods and services and the medium of exchange.
1.1.1...
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[identity profile] ankh156.livejournal.com 2012-12-05 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
7.0 Whereof one cannot afford, thereof one must go whistle.

[identity profile] johnny9fingers.livejournal.com 2012-12-05 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Bingo. We have a winner.

Hope you're well.

[identity profile] peristaltor.livejournal.com 2012-12-05 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . The marketplace's medium of exchange is. . .

—actually, what the hell is it? Why must it continuously inflate? Why is it never issued by sovereign nations, but only by their banks? And why do the banks get to write the legislation governing it? Hey, something's—Ooof!

. . . a perfectly neutral medium without any affect on the marketplace. Move along, now. Nothing to see.

[identity profile] johnny9fingers.livejournal.com 2012-12-05 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
True, but I couldn't fit it into Wittgenstein's opening "Tractatus" format. ankh156, who has known my cultural horizons over the years, produced a neat and fitting conclusion.

Your contribution I think would have been a bit later on. Which is not to deny its qualities.

If my memory serves me right, a good part of the Tractatus's impact was its numbering system. But it was all so long ago...
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