The "desire to hold money as a store of wealth is a barometer of the degree of our distrust of our own calculations and conventions concerning the future
Hmmm. It sounds to me like it would be more accurate to say that instead of distrust of ourselves it is anxiety about the unknowability of the future. We all differ and fluctuate in our senses of how predictable the future is, and obviously that is contingent on the level of chaos of our environments, our self-evaluated skill at predicting, and our comfort level with ambiguity. Thus we can say more fairly that the desire to hold money as a store of wealth is a barometer of the degree of anxiety about the predictability of the future we experience.
(no subject)
Hmmm. It sounds to me like it would be more accurate to say that instead of distrust of ourselves it is anxiety about the unknowability of the future. We all differ and fluctuate in our senses of how predictable the future is, and obviously that is contingent on the level of chaos of our environments, our self-evaluated skill at predicting, and our comfort level with ambiguity. Thus we can say more fairly that the desire to hold money as a store of wealth is a barometer of the degree of anxiety about the predictability of the future we experience.