Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposed… - Gregory Bateson

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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Gregory Bateson

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Gregory Bateson (May 9, 1904 – July 4, 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He was married to Margaret Mead.

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#. A tertiary negative injunction prohibiting the victim from escaping from the ﬁeld.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. - Gregory Bateson

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