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"Now, if you think it over, you realize that money is the
attention unit of society. That's about all it is. They
scatter these attention units around, and society does the
astonishing, the marvelous, the fantastic trick of actually
taking pieces of paper — not any longer silver and certainly
not gold, (that would be too nice for everybody to have, so
they don't issue that anymore) — and they take this stuff and
they actually can convert it. You take a whole stack of these
pieces of paper, you know, and you go bing, and you got
an automobile. That's a magic of some sort or another, and it
is so magicful that people become criminals and acquire the
automobile without making the money go boomp. That's
what's known as criminality.
"But on the upper band, the impossibly high band from our
standpoint at this time, an individual theoretically could be
sufficiently able not to make the money go boomp, but
to simply say, 'Automobile — zing.' And you'd have an
automobile. See, that's an impossible height.
"But by the introduction of a via called money into every
transaction, then a group can monitor the individual of the
group by giving him, on rations, just so much of this stuff
which is convertible, whoomp, into automobiles and
food.
"So, by introducing this via, you put in a barrier; a
barrier to acquisition, a barrier to havingness. It's not a
bad barrier. Did you ever play an old game, years and years
and years ago, called Monopoly? That's a fantastic
game. People sit up all night long, converting these little
houses and little pieces of paper just as though that wasn't
what they were doing all day long, too. That wasn't a game,
that was a dramatization."
— L. Ron Hubbard Communication, Freedom & Ability
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