Money erases qualitative distinctions by reducing everything to quantity

Evidence

By being the equivalent to all the manifold things in one and the same way, money becomes the most frightful leveler. For money expresses all qualitative differences of things in terms of “how much?” — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9785

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Commodity exchange reduces difference to identity through endless novelty — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 548; Modern efficiency erases the ceremonious generosity that once defined luxury travel; International money homogenizes social life into an undifferentiated present — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1994 (+2 more)