Memetic Index
Money is a store of memetic debt, so it’s literally residual memetic debt in concrete form. Residual memetic debt may be the one big thing that underpins human anxiety about things like fear of inflation and fears around social obligations and such.
Anyway, while “poor” people have normal relations with others, based on ethics and manners and social graces, with a bit of thinking about “several hours of my work time equals a nice meal with my family or purchasing this piece of clothing, etc.” the amassing of virtually endless piles of residual memetic debt (money) or a storehouse of “undefined stuff that is owed to me but is on hold” leads to a sense of entitlement and the idea that everyone else is beholden to oneself along with the anxiety that they might not deliver and the urge to goad and drive them to do so.
Again, this is related to the anxiety that the foreboding associated with inflation, ie, that I’ve amassed all this “stuff” but that until I get it paid back to me somehow, I might end up with less than I “deserve.”
