Financialization Continues Apace

Just a quick observation while I work on a more substantive post. It's interesting the degree to which our language relies on financial metaphors. Someone who accepts a financial instrument at "face value" gives it the full value stated on its face. On the other hand, someone who has doubts about the instrument might discount it, i.e. buy it for less than 100 cents on the dollar.

And so when someone tells you something, you can take it at face value, or you can discount it.