POLL: Money is real - y/n?

Only love is real

everything is real

therefore everything is love

everything is desire

money is terrible though

Regardless of whether it is real or not, it certainly must be funny

In the rich man’s world.

i heard it changes everything

Hard to buy anything without it

But not impossible.

Define money

That which rules everything around me.

It's a gas, somewhere in the bottom left of the periodic table, iiric. So yes, real, but wispy.

I voted “other” but I refuse to explain

As real as it gets, I think.

money is real and they make it in Manhattan

Money's unreal.

money makes the world go round. but the world is a vampire. and vampires will never hurt you. because I hurt myself today, just to see if I still feel. and you make me feel (mighty real) so yes, it must be funny, it's a rich man's world.

Anyway, the answer is that if enough people believe in a fiction and deem it necessary to their collective existence said fiction becomes a reality. Money is thus both real and unreal.

Thought of the Day: We are like the spider. We weave our life & move along it. We are like the dreamer who dreams & then lives in the dream.

— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) February 10, 2009

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^^ the banality of reality.

lol I only clicked on the updated US pol thread just now. Apologies for the semi-earnest answer.

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Super Nintendo
Sega Genesis
Money isn't real
I didn't have to pay for this

moneybagg yo has all the world's money in a giant bagg

pom otm. If we've learned nothing else of late, we can at least admit that reality and unreality are pretty far from fixed. What's even real, besides Q?

NOTHINQ IS REAL

AND NOTHINQ TO QET HUNQ ABOUT

sure. THEY could talk. THEY were rolling in it.

Btw it goes without saying that 'unreal' here stands for 'sick', 'awesome', 'rad', 'tubular', 'out of this world', 'groovy', 'deck', etc., right?

ahh knew pomenitul was a ninja turtle

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Is a social construction real? Is “1pm” real?

Money and debt and credit are all more interesting when discussing how and for whom they function, are they not?

Is a social construction real? Is “1pm” real?

Money and debt and credit are all more interesting when discussing how and for whom they function, are they not?

Is a social construction real? Is “1pm” real?

Money and debt and credit are all more interesting when discussing how and for whom they function, are they not?

Is a social construction real? Is “1pm” real?

Money and debt and credit are all more interesting when discussing how and for whom they function, are they not?

yes x3(x3)

Money is barbarism, to me

Ah dammit, can someone remove my double-posts?

I agree that presentation >>> representation.

But sometimes, maybe even most of the time, presentation is representation and representation is presentation. What then?

TS: 'Taxman' vs. 'Strawberry Fields Forever'

I would not give up McClane for all the gold in your Fort Knox

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it." — David Lee Roth

Money is real, but there's a LOT of "clap your hands if you believe" as to why any currency or commodity is worth what the authorities say it's worth.

On the metaphysics of money

On the metaphysics of money

money was created by god r u saying god isn't real

Hah, looks like Les Éditions du Cerf have expanded their range, although the author's other works are theology-adjacent, so it makes sense.

He’s my colleague!

Nice. Looks like a neat little treatise!

Yup. He’s been giving talks on it, i haven’t read it yet

the imaginary was related to the penis or lack thereof, i forget which, and i'm not going to look it up so that someone else can make a funny

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Did we figure this one out?

the polls are still open

Money is not only real its pretty good stuff

when debating whether people with rent and bills and other obligations who haven't worked in a year are worth $1400 or $2000: extremely real.

when it's time to sign off on another bi-partisan defense bill for a military that hasn't won a war in 75 years? not even the tiniest little bit

so option "c" i guess

How Can Money Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?

Can you show us the poll demonstrating that last one there pls

Is Pink Floyd real? Is Dire Straits real?

has the definition of real been established yet because it still beats me

'From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”).'

Therefore…

…money is the OG reality.

waiting for "Big" Dung to weigh in before I vote

Anyone voting no, we'll ask em what they work for themselves i guess

so vulgar materalism/economism is baked into our language and metaphysics that explains a lot

It's been like this since the neolithic at the very least.

Writing was invented to record specific amounts of livestock iirc.

sucks

Mallarmé: '…each person might find it sufficient, for exchanging human thought, to take or to place a coin silently in someone else's hand.' Presumably literature and/or poetry is different, he believed, but I have my doubts.

Survival has often (mainly) been vulgar

Holding yr nose every time you post is more than a little vulgar id argue but i dont mind vulgarity so much its just another flavour

Homo sapiens was all about the hustle from day one, and doubtless before that as well.

Are days real

Days are real, nights are unreal.

I just keep thinkin about my baby

if we want to end the hustle we must go beyond the human then

actually if saying money is real is just a way of needling people who think it's (part of) a terrible thing then i might want to change my vote

Penguins exchange kewl-looking rocks for sex, per Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World. So post-animal's the ticket, perhaps, but technology is economic through and through.

Anyway pom this poll is a bit of a legpoll imo

What level of the transactional imperative metaphor is it you are asking us to test for material firmness here u scamp?

is btc real. is notes backed by credit and asset ledgerkeeping real, is a system to dole out power in a manageable way on a daily basis real, is needing to give yr neighbour a reason to feed and roof you when you are hungry and unsheltered real?

all of them are real but twould maybe allow for tabletop showiness from ilxors scarcely any more real than leaflets taught to type if you would perhaps show us where you yourself were having trouble

Is internet politics real

Are human emotions, right, real

I mean really real

Undoubtedly not obv btw

Just the momentary flavour of the meat

Where were we

are we gonna blame pom now every time an inscrutable potentially didactic poll gets spun off of a politics thread

Tbf I posted my semi-untrolly answer upthread: 'if enough people believe in a fiction and deem it necessary to their collective existence said fiction becomes a reality. Money is thus both real and unreal.'

And OP is not yours truly.

Lol well i take 95% of the blame for that

Pom owns 5% because it is in fairness exactly poms type of poll imo

Apparently Aimless's as well, which is… unexpected.

So youd say 10% maybe

I did mildly revive the 'discussion', so 10% guilty as charged.

Kind of you, pleasure as always

this poll is a bit of a legpoll imo

this poll is without guile. it is exactly what it purports to be.

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