我们非常接近一定的钱,金钱并不意味着什么……他们说:这将花费多少钱?这确实是一个完全毫无意义的概念。金钱决定了我们的现实。金钱不是恒定的因素,而只是一个完全取决于其存在的过程。我们已经看到没有钱的情况,我认为我们越来越接近它。
(We're very near a certain point where money doesn't mean anything... They say: How much money is this going to cost? This is really a totally meaningless concept. Money determines less and less our reality. Money is not constant factor, it's simply a process dependent entirely on acceptance for its existence. We already see situations without money, and I think that we're coming closer and closer to it.)
在威廉·伯劳斯(William S. Burroughs)的书中“与威廉·伯罗斯(William Burroughs):掩体的报告”,他谈到了社会中不断发展的金钱概念。他建议我们很快就会达到金钱的重要性大大降低的地步。传统的成本问题变得无关紧要,因为人们越来越认识到金钱缺乏内在的价值,而只是一种依赖集体接受的社会结构。
Burroughs观察到,我们目睹了在没有货币交换的情况下进行交易的新兴场景,这表明社会动态发生了变化。随着这一进化的继续,他暗示我们对现实的理解将改变,挑战传统对货币的依赖,以衡量价值或现实的决定因素。