Money: It's the second product of reification, coming after the primary act of reification, which is "God".
Reification is a principle of Philosophical Idealism and lays the emotional foundations for psychological projection. It posits a reversal of original cause and effect, turning subjects into objects and vice-versa.
The tool by which we measure economic value ought not to give us our particular value. For when this happens, this produces a reversal of cause and effect: Inanimate forces take on a life of their own, to dominate humans.
"The market" functions in just such a way, to fix the overall value of something on the basis of commercial demand. Due to the overwhelming importance of the market for survival, these commercial values come to dominate the thinking of the subject, bestowing a commercial meaning, and not a deeply human one, on both the seller and the value of her products. When this occurs, the subject becomes the plaything of her original aim: survival.
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