Fforde's other idea, "stupidity surplus," comes to mind. It's a good comparison really; on governmental scale at least (on a personal level too, actually--evil, evil credit cards), money has steadily become something intangible and abstract, like stupidity, and that makes it too easy to spend. Never mind the pack-rat mentality supported by the modern Western world.
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Date: 2007-08-06 03:01 pm (UTC)