The agent and the messenger and the manager are each another form of a proxy that conceals the identity of the principal.
Moshe starts out as God's political proxy but then becomes a principal in his own right. The priesthood serves as a proxy for God (while the mishkan becomes concealed behind God's fiery mist) when Moshe becomes a colleague of God's and an actor in the rule of the people.
How the society, and especially the economy, handles proxies is crucial to the character of that society.
The market is the ultimate proxy because the market makes all transactions anonymous.
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