{"id":58164,"date":"2018-03-08T23:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T23:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58164"},"modified":"2018-03-08T23:41:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T23:41:26","slug":"doubletweeting-moolah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58164","title":{"rendered":"DoubleTweeting moolah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; somewhere between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transaction.net\/money\/book\/index.html\">Lietaer<\/a>, Bitcoin and a leisure-driven future ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Please note, I am not using <strong><em>moolah<\/em> <\/strong>in the sense in which <strong>Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong> used it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/21768?msg=welcome_stranger\">A Desert Drama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The squat lieutenant, the <strong><em>moolah<\/em><\/strong>, and about a dozen Dervishes surrounded the prisoners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a quality of surprise to the two tweeted stories that follow, which highlights our usual acceptance of the idea that money is value. Consider:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">500 Canadian doctors protest pay raises because they already make enough money <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZPXDxHZHLN\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZPXDxHZHLN<\/a> of Canadian doctors demand lower salaries. 700 physicians, residents and medical students from Quebec  had signed an online petition asking for their pay raises to be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ???? ???????????? (@angnws1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/angnws1\/status\/971636397785395200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then, from a different angle:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The listed price for food at a New Orleans pop-up stall is $12. But white customers are asked whether they want to pay $30.<\/p>\n<p>The owners says it&#39;s to reflect the city&#39;s income disparity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/byTH15sAn2\">https:\/\/t.co\/byTH15sAn2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NPR (@NPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPR\/status\/970540914765680640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conan Doyle<\/strong> again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But I am ordered to gather you together, for the <strong><em>moolah<\/em> <\/strong>is coming to convert you all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; somewhere between Lietaer, Bitcoin and a leisure-driven future ] . Please note, I am not using moolah in the sense in which Arthur Conan Doyle used it in A Desert Drama: The squat lieutenant, the moolah, and about a dozen Dervishes surrounded the prisoners. ** There&#8217;s a quality of surprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1083,627,1151,332,1316,850,753,652,1298,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-dollar","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-economics","category-food","category-health-care","category-islam","category-literature","category-racism","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58170,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58164\/revisions\/58170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}