Saturday, October 7, 2017

Transactions

Here today.
Gone tomorrow.

This axiom harbours some truth.

The tomato I grew in my garden today, is gone tomorrow.
Eat it now, or the black mold will get at the fruit, along with the slugs.

The cash I have, spent today, is gone tomorrow.

These transactions of mine, however, write code into two kinds of memory.

1)  in the tomato transaction the other party will always return something of the event... whether I eat or not, wherein if I do not the slugs do, in either case a compostable product is produced and this can be returned to the soil from whence the starting tomato first grew - the relationship is the fact, amorphous in time

2) a bank record -  statement - relationship removed from fact, fixed in time

In both cases:

Here today.
Remembered tomorrow.


In the tomato transaction, you will always be forgiven, rewarded, and denied with a complete absence of moral judgement, regardless of the outcome.  You are the arbiter and actor, your choice will raise you up, or bring you down, in your relationship with the Other.

In all cases of the $ monetary transaction, you will live with the associated consequence, marked by a moral imperative, until the day you dissolve your soul and return to dust and ashes.  Others will raise you up or bring you down.

Choose Your Economic Value: Eat 1 Pay 2

jp melville gardening economics
In this tomatoe transaction, over the Other I have no direct controls.  This is an ecological market, in which I have full opportunity to participate. The outcome is up to me and the tomato. My participation is described in relationships.


jp melville economics
In this cash transaction, I only deal with others who, my part being one of billions, determine the economic and moral imperatives of the transaction.  This is a free market economy, in which I am defined as labour.  My participation is described in competition with others.