Book 5 Chapter 5 (Rewind)

Relating back to Chapter 5 in Book 5, I kind of wanted to touch on how interesting the topic of money is and how its brought into account within this text. It’s hard for me to bring up questions or to write a super interesting blog because I am just blogging about what sparked my interest. A lot of material in Aristotle is kind of hard to understand but the concept of exchange and fair exchange and how currency comes into play really makes sense. I never contemplated how currency came to be in this greek society but I love the process in which it is described. It is interesting that it all started with the exchanging for the equality of goods. Back then one would trade 6 pairs of shoes and get a house in return because the shoe maker needs a house and the house-builder needs shoes. This was a fair trade. Times have changed drastically, obviously, and now I don’t think that people are as concerned with the equality of the trade rather they are concerned with the money/profit that they are making and how competitive they can make their business. It all started out with equality and now equality doesn’t even seem to fit in the picture at all.