You’ve got to spend money to make money — and nothing is better at making money than money itself.

Paid for our time and spending our time to get paid, wage labor is a self-perpetuating exploitative machine, turning our bodies into profit machines that fuel the accumulation and consolidation of wealth for the very few of the managerial class. But if living is turned into nothing but the generation of value, how might we make a system of value — a currency — that resembles us as living, dying, reproducing creatures?

Explaining the ruthlessness of capital to children, Babak Radboy peels away the skin of our society to reveal the skeleton of money propping it up and proposes a brave new world where money breathes along with us.