A common fantasy of adolescence is imagining a world without money in which you can get whatever you want without needing those pesky green pieces of paper bearing pictures of George Washington. The fantasy quickly turns into annoyance that some people have lots of those Washington portraits. What makes those people so special? Why should they get to acquire all that cool stuff when you can’t? Enter Cory Doctorow’s novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, a veritable Fantasyland … [Read more...] about Money, Wealth, and Whuffie
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
