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| | Medium of Exchange (Revised) (Ftrain.com) |
 | | It goes to the cashier, and then to the bank, and then it turns into a bit of light, traveling through the world's networks, spreading out through loans and the larger money supply, dented by interest rates, skimmed and re-skimmed in fractional percentages, hopping continents at light speed. |
 | | Whereas my clients, who hire me and thus pay for my apartment and my cans of soup, are the ones who can think in money-as-light, money as signal, and know how to listen for opportunity, endlessly seeking their percentage, their commission, their reward for being a native speaker. |
 | | This is Medium of Exchange (Revised), an essay and a commentary by Paul Ford, originally from Tuesday, November 25, 2003, published Tuesday, November 25, 2003. |
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