The Relationship Between Money and Relationships

Even after coming up with this remarkable invention of money, we've also come up with lots of ways to make money inefficient and difficult to use. We give our friends gift cards to restaurants that limit in some ways they can use the money. What do these inefficient forms of money tell us about the role that money plays in personal relationships? I love this kind of stuff because it really shows you that money is never purely fungable. It we're continuously putting boundaries around different pots of money. And those boundaries are moral boundaries. They signify a moral or ethical or relational stance that we want to take with respect to one another. This kind of ear marking of money for special purposesreally does help us