Monetization facilitates the accessibility of the medium and the degree to which it can be conditioned. Firstly, there is a duplication of Scarcity: along with the scarcity of goods, there is now the scarcity of money. Goods are seen as assets, i.e., the equivalents of sums of money. Now, money is the primary subject of scarcity, rather than commodities (that could be bought with money). Money is not simply the sum of bank notes, but the sum of all property seen from the Perspective of its ability to be transferred into liquid funds. This yields, among other things, the universalization of scarcity, in the sense that everyone always needs more money, while they do not necessarily need a particular commodity.
Money is a →symbolically generalized medium that corresponds to the constellation of →Attribution in which alter’s action is experienced by ego. As long as this action does not affect access to scare resources, the situation remains unproblematic. Ego’s observation of the action of others does not provoke her own action: ego observes, for instance, that a neighbor cuts the grass. However, as soon as a situation of scarcity emerges (when, for instance, land is limited), alter’s access (the fact that alter is cultivating a particular piece of land)
Here is a quick crib table to compare aspects of the Cartesian Mindset with the Agile Mindset:
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scarcity | BrE ˈskɛːsɪti, AmE ˈskɛrsədi | noun 1 (short supply) Knappheit (Fem. of an + Dat.) ▸ there is a scarcity of sugar es herrscht Zuckerknappheit ▸ scarcity of teachers Lehrermangel (Mask.) ▸ food scarcity Lebensmittelknappheit (Fem.) 2 no pl. (rareness) Seltenheit (Fem.) ▸ have [a] scarcity value Seltenheitswert haben