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I just keep hoping the writing of esc reaches more and more people. Thank you for sharing his work.

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"For Hess, this was supposedly meant as a critique. He saw money as an alienating force, turning human creativity into commodity and severing people from the value of their own work. His proposed solution was to abolish money entirely.

Yet a critique can become a blueprint. To dismantle a system, you must first understand it — and in doing so, you provide a map for anyone who wants to rebuild it. Hess mapped how money integrates society, coordinates behavior, and makes individuals dependent on the whole. Those who wished to construct rather than destroy could read his work as an instruction manual."

Exactly! The same can be said about George Orwell's book "1984". It was meant as a warning, not an instruction manual.

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