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Money Talks

'Taking the internal snowflake of the sensory motor system out of the mouth is a complicated process and that's where the complexity and diversity of language resides.'  Noam Chomsky  The most common definition of money is as a medium of exchange, so why isn't economics a module in a media degree? Instead of a multi-billion dollar subject that seems to underwrite everything.  What made me question the legitimacy of our financial system? Maybe it was Douglas Adams jest about the Golgafrinchans using leaves for money and chopping down forests to pre-empt inflation. Or maybe it was the collapse of the banking system that happened in 2008. . The internal snowflake of the mind, as Chomsky called it, the place where money begins, is something we really don't understand yet.  We haven't even begun to study it, as Chomsky points out in his lyrically succinct way. We have no real idea why we have such a complex and innate language capacity.  Seeing as language