Money is toxic
Money is toxic. It’s obvious. Jesus, Gandhi and the GFC. Your new job is to try and get by with less and less of it. Grow more, swap more, walk more, make more, borrow more, give more. Try and convince your kids to support you in your retirement (what other choice do you have?). Wes Jackson says that high energy destroys information. Money keeps you from loving your neighbours and from receiving their love. Your salary is your exposure. Give it up!
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Sure, be generous! But I can’t tell how serious you are about toxicity. Your list is all good, but why does that mean money is poisonous?
It seems to me that Jesus’ parables are very positive about money. Serving money is another matter. Isn’t it the old “money” vs. “love of money” thing?
I’m more and more getting the feeling the the “GFC” is merely a good excuse for big companies to lay off staff. :-)
I’m sorry, that was the oracle talking. My reading and thinking (and gardening) of late is pointing me in this direction, though I haven’t got a good enough grip on it yet to argue the case.
More oracular muttering: Dmitry Orlov, John Robb, Transition Towns, James Howard Kunstler, Money as Debt, wage slavery, alternative currencies (not all money is created equal), cooperatives, NZ likely to be one year behind the US in Depression-terms, the possibility of hyper-inflation (savings worthless), community resilience, brittle supply lines, climate change and resource depletion, Jared Diamond, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson.
And Kim Stanley Robinson says he writes science fiction because it’s the only genre that captures the feeling of being alive now — we’re all living in a co-authored sci-fi epic.
But first, surely, what *is* money?
And an even more basic question: what is wealth?
I realised I should have said (with Jesus), your *savings* are your exposure.