Money works for you!
Money is a medium. That´s fine.
An input of energy is needed for its production and movement. It cannot act, it cannot work by itself. It may just boost exploitation for your gain.
Nicely printed money, cash, is limited due to its material circumstances. Cash is dirty. It carries a
biotope of up to 3,000 species of bacteria and viruses.
Touching cash has always been a threat; people can get sick from the dirt but now, more than ever, people are afraid of getting sick, of making other people sick, or of being killed by the breath of friends, colleagues, or even daughters and sons. Covid is the new black star.
For years, money has become more and more 0 or 1 bits and bytes. For years, there has been a strong lobby in favour of a cashless society. For years, more and more of our communication has been packed into bytes. In the past weeks while in lockdown, private words once reserved only for intimate meetings with friends got transformed into 0 or 1 and were channelled through the cold glass of screens. Numbers now flicker under those screens announcing the amount of dollars or euros needed by the economy and featuring such high figures that they cannot be grasped.
2019, in Columbia, I saw people on the streets weaving Venezuelan bolivianos (banknotes) into beautiful bags. From the first moment, I was fascinated and bought one. The next day, I ordered more. Suddenly I realized that cash can work for me. In this form, it is both information and material. Money as a medium becomes a means for transporting my glasses, my driving license, name cards, and wallet.