Kim- Isn't this whole project a critique of individual role playing in the theater of capital. Individual self dramatization gets at the underlying truth of ourselves as participants, willing and unwilling, in the exchange of self for other ( be it goods, property, status, security, etc. ) through the agency of the technical in whatever form we mediate ourselves? "Art is the lie that reveals the truth." When we reveal ourselves as "players" we drop the social mask/ persona and a glimpse of the person as human becomes possible.
The person who questioned the use of the video camera responded well enough when he was the object of the camera's attention, ie: once he was included. We are simply offering a means to participate in a transactional awareness of the process of media exchange-in this case money- by using one form to observe another.
Capitalism is based on the fallacy of the technical- the premise that one can devise a system which, in and of its own operations, will produce the good. Moral isolation and social displacement are its environmental consequences. The Money Project, I feel, works towards sharing the social benefits of environmental awareness by distributing access to the necessary tools to any one who is interested in participating.
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