Jon - be careful in speaking for all of humanity - ("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." and "It's like a
necessary evil we've come to blindly accept." and "We
> evaluate people based on their income (quite often)".) This may be true -
but to what extent? Money does not shape my life to the degree that it does
others that I know. And I don't "blindly accept" it. And my focus tends to
be on the person, not their outwardly worldly trappings or wealth.
So, while the statements you make may be true for som, I don't
believe they are true for all. That's all I'm trying to say.
Shalom
David Lind
Trickster@postmark.net
Ascmjk@aol.com wrote:
> 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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