Entering human life means being subordinated to money.
Evidence
But he needs money, now, to survive. He borrows enough from a passer-by to buy a cup of coffee and trades in a piece of ancient armour (which we subsequently learn is the initial endowment of all angels who come to earth) … Damiel’s entry into this human world is now firmly located within the co-ordinates of social space, social time, and the social power of money. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2017
Categorization
- XREF: This scene prefigures the chapter’s core move: locating experience within the coordinates of space, time, and money — the book’s organizing triad. — connects to: A person can be socially poor yet individually wealthy — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 439; The slave condition dissolves personhood into property, making a life a thing possessed. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 65; Being subordinate to a thing reduces a person psychologically to a thing (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Being subordinate to a thing reduces a person psychologically to a thing
#expands(0.92) - The slave condition dissolves personhood into property, making a life a thing possessed.
#expands(0.78) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 65 - A person can be socially poor yet individually wealthy
#qualifies(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 439 - Capitalism is a class-divided socioeconomic system of contingent human making.
#complicates(0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 58