i hate it when people toss money or leave money on the table for someone else to pick up in the process of a transaction (at a grocery store, or the mall, where ever). this goes both ways (though often i see that it’s the customer), the person standing on the other side of the counter is a human being, please put the money (or receipt) in their hands. do not leave it aside or toss it.
thank you.
Then don’t ever go to Japan. From what I’ve heard, over there, it is considered rude to hand people money as part of a transaction.
People always put the money down for the other party to pick up, even when making change.
good point, i didn’t factor in cultural norms.
it’s also about attitude. the nature in which the action is done more than the action itself perhaps…
I don’t think one need to worry too much about dropping the money on the table. In this process no one really intend to humiliate the other person. Even the other person who receive the money never think it as humiliating posture. The real question that one need to ponder is about the commodity. Money is a representative of the value of the commodity. Value is a representative of human labor. However it is not always the human labor that is represented in the exchange process of commodities. It is something more than that which is called the surplus-value. We need to direct our criticism precisely at it and not the surface reading of exchange. There is an element of opacity under Capitalism which Marxism attempts to demolish. Capital Volume one is a good ground to begin.
Prasanth, you’re right, /that/ is the real question. i am generally satisfied pondering upon the false and fake questions. many a pleasant evening i have spent like this.
but when a stranger on the internet tells you to read Capital, you should. there’s just no two ways around that. and so i promise you i will read Capital (at least parts of it).
Thank you Mr. Adnan. I think it is not only you but majority of us do it. This is because of the opacity that exist under Capitalist mode of production at dual level - at the level of exploitation and at the level social relations. The exploitation is not open but concealed in the production process (surplus takes the form of value) and hence commodity fetishism. If everyone ponder the real question instead of false and fake ones, then the world will not be what it is. So it is not only you but everyone of us who are generally satisfied pondering upon the false and fake questions.
i leave money on the table sometimes, but not because i’m trying to be rude, but because i have so much change and would drop it otherwise