David, Mary, Manning, and others
I agree with David that money itself is not bad, it's the love of money that
is bad. And I agree with Mary that money is a handy tool, much easier than
barter. But this tool has come to utterly dominate our lives. You can pretend
you don't care about money in today's world, but deep down, you do. It's
engrained in you and shapes your life. I think it's damaging to the human
spirit. It's like a necessary evil we've come to blindly accept. The evidence
is certainly there. Certainly, abolishing money would be a disaster if done
all at once, but the first step is evaluating how we feel about money, and
the changes we can make on an individual level. Passing social laws never
helps (but abolishing a few social laws often does).
Morally, you're supposed to treat Jack and Jim the same even if Jack makes
more money than Jim; but in reality, it often doesn't work like this. We
evaluate people based on their income (quite often). Just like a father who
wants to know what his daughter's future husband does for a living. It
matters to people.
We have countless channels and television programs devoted to the stock
market, yet we have no (at least in my viewing area) cancer or AIDS channel.
Is something wrong with that picture?
Jon
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