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Posted on:March 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM

Came across this idea of a link blog in Simon Willison’s newsletter and decided to give it a try myself and see how far I can take it.

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José Luís Sampedro

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh

Cerca de tu casa

Thought process: mutual dependencies

“Puede usted seguir preguntando: sobre la (…) serán siempre más las preguntas que las respuestas.” - Carlos Santos 1

What if money didn’t exist?

I remember the eyebrows it raised and the meh-smile she threw at me when I put the question to a friend who was reading history at uni at the time. Here is an idea though that doesn’t intend to abolish money, probably the widest abstraction that’s closest to our everyday life in the most practical terms possible. It would, kind of, fine-tune or enhance the abstraction instead, wouldn’t it?

What if money didn’t exist? 2

   

Footnotes

  1. Carlos Santos, 333 historias de la transición, Madrid, La Esfera de los Libros, 2015, p44

  2. Thanks to Chris Ferdinandi of gomakethings.com for giving me permission to link his text here.