If you say that money is work, that is past-oriented rather than future-oriented. Past-oriented means you think of value in terms of costs rather than benefits. The cost of money is work. However, once you have it, that work is in the past. It no longer has anything to do with the value of the money you have. The value is what you can do with it, which is exchange some time in the future for whatever goods are being offered for it.
This is a game. When you play chess, do you care about whether your queen was always a queen or whether it was a pawn that got promoted? No, you do not, at least not if you want to win. The value of the queen is who you can defend and attack with it, not how it became a queen. A promoted queen is not a representation of a pawn.
Thus, the value of money is future production. That is what money gets you. Money is not a representation of work. How much you worked for it isn't what matters once you have it. Future-orientation is just what you do when you play any game but people forget that a lot when the game is real life.
If you say that money is work, that is past-oriented rather than future-oriented. Past-oriented means you think of value in terms of costs rather than benefits. The cost of money is work. However, once you have it, that work is in the past. It no longer has anything to do with the value of the money you have. The value is what you can do with it, which is exchange some time in the future for whatever goods are being offered for it.
This is a game. When you play chess, do you care about whether your queen was always a queen or whether it was a pawn that got promoted? No, you do not, at least not if you want to win. The value of the queen is who you can defend and attack with it, not how it became a queen. A promoted queen is not a representation of a pawn.
Thus, the value of money is future production. That is what money gets you. Money is not a representation of work. How much you worked for it isn't what matters once you have it. Future-orientation is just what you do when you play any game but people forget that a lot when the game is real life.