A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Money

Money increases transactions; it obsolesces barter; it retrieves potlatch or conspicuous waste; and it flips into credit cards, which is not money at all.
“Living at the speed of light,” in Understanding Me (2003), p 243
Quote #3335
Year: 2003
Chapter: Laws of Media
Compiled by William Kuhns
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