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2023: Concept Money Laundering, published in positionen

Money secures domination. Money is anonymous and abstract. Historically, this link between power and quantifiability has changed the world. Money can be accumulated infinitely, unlike commodities or labor services. Money thus made way for injustice on a new scale and continues to secure it today. Anthropologist David Graeber points out that money is trivialized. He shows that the common narrative of the emergence of money as a simplification of barter falls far short. He demonstrates that the invention of money is essentially about financing wars. In global capital flows, money symbolically carries every previous transaction. It bears traces of wars, 2023: Concept Money Laundering, published in positionen