Simmel saw money as both cause and expression of social acceleration.

Evidence

Simmel then brings all these tendencies into close connection with the expanding monetarization of the modern economy, something that appears to him to be both a cause of social acceleration and an expression of it (pictured in the “rolls of coins” sweeping through social life without resistance). Modern monetary exchange enables, increases, and accelerates social and commercial transactions and economic circulation and thereby mobilizes almost all social relations. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 206

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Money expands economic circles and individualizes participants simultaneously — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 664

Broader Connections

• Money expands economic circles and individualizes participants simultaneously #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 664