Money makes desire instantly operative, dissolving the technical distance to objects

Evidence

At the cost of not obtaining things and of renouncing all the specific satisfactions that are tied to particulars, money can provide a sense of power far enough removed from actual empirical objects that it is not subject to the limitations imposed by possession of them. Money alone do we own completely and without limitations. It alone can be completely incorporated into the use which we plan for it. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 449 (#expands, via linked claim)

Through exchange, economic process and economic values emerge simultaneously, because exchange is what sustains or produces the distance between subject and object which transmutes the subjective state of feeling into objective valuation. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Money functions as magic, making desire immediately effective; Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250; Money yields unlimited mastery because it resists the resistance of concrete objects — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 449 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Money functions as magic, making desire immediately effective #corroborates (0.95)
• Money yields unlimited mastery because it resists the resistance of concrete objects #expands (0.90) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 449
• Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object #qualifies (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250
• Desire has a double determination toward being and toward appropriating concrete objects #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1363