A Fistfull of Greenbacks?

I mentioned a few weeks back that I had finished Douglas Rushkoff's Life, Inc., a book with far too many tantalizing tidbits to share without pretty much transcribing the whole tome. I settled on simply mentioning that teabagger thing. Rushkoff really chronicles not only the rise of the corporation, but also of the monetary system that supports these corporations. Without a centralized money standard, any but small corporations would have difficulty competing with small family businesses.

Why this is the case is ( fascinating, but I recognize different people define that word differently and therefore put my musings under this cut. )