ABSTRACT
When a psychological coercion is expressed outwardly through everyday practice, there can be no strict, for example, mathematical relationship between the drive and its outcome. From an existential viewpoint no strict correspondence or rigid relationship between values and market prices can exist, except by defining value as price and thus emptying it of content. The passion for life cannot be in algebraic or functionally specifiable relationship with monetary magnitudes. Money operationalizes our life-snatching urge, but it does not induce any metric on it, only on its phenomenological aspects. A weak relationship may be expected to hold between the two, in the sense that our compulsive urge for life inflames our passion for power through possession of artefacts and thus raises money velocity. The tendency of monetary magnitudes or ratios thereof to grow reflects the rising intensity of the life-snatching urge. Greed as such finds no metric or limit; it can be quantified only through its catch.
