the dark side of money
I’d like to be unashamedly self-indulgent here and write a post for the sole sake of getting my thoughts out and hopefully transforming them a little. If they turn out to be useful for other people I’ll post them.
I’ve already written a post about this subject before: Money. In it, I put out my own perspective on the self-development concepts that are supposed to help us get more of it. I decided at one point that I wanted to get money in my life, so I studied those concepts and found my own spin on them. All well and good.
Today though, I want to talk about the dark side of money. It’s so well known that money has a dark side that some people don’t even question if it has a light side. On the other hand, some people get so lost in their personal development ideas that they forget why money was hard for them to handle in the first place. Money has a dark side; at best it’s a useful tool, at worst it’s a vicious illusion.
By the way, at this time I focus quite a lot on the dark in my writing. I ran away from that for a time, but at the insistence of my inner compass, I’ve decided to dive deep into it, accept all of these tendencies of mine to see the darkness. Let it flow and get the best lessons out of it.
I think I’m making a pretty good example here, though there’ll always be one or two people who have a problem with me not being enlightened. I guess these are the people who can’t accept themselves not being enlightened.
Moving on. The dark side of money. What is it?
Well I think that, fundamentally, the existence of money is rooted in darkness. In a world of light, there would be none. People would give to each other freely, and that would be it. All of the myriad problems of capitalism, from planned obsolescence to poverty to needing to “protect” a “job”, would disappear in face of a single solution:
I’ve already written a post about this subject before: Money. In it, I put out my own perspective on the self-development concepts that are supposed to help us get more of it. I decided at one point that I wanted to get money in my life, so I studied those concepts and found my own spin on them. All well and good.
Today though, I want to talk about the dark side of money. It’s so well known that money has a dark side that some people don’t even question if it has a light side. On the other hand, some people get so lost in their personal development ideas that they forget why money was hard for them to handle in the first place. Money has a dark side; at best it’s a useful tool, at worst it’s a vicious illusion.
By the way, at this time I focus quite a lot on the dark in my writing. I ran away from that for a time, but at the insistence of my inner compass, I’ve decided to dive deep into it, accept all of these tendencies of mine to see the darkness. Let it flow and get the best lessons out of it.
I think I’m making a pretty good example here, though there’ll always be one or two people who have a problem with me not being enlightened. I guess these are the people who can’t accept themselves not being enlightened.
Moving on. The dark side of money. What is it?
Well I think that, fundamentally, the existence of money is rooted in darkness. In a world of light, there would be none. People would give to each other freely, and that would be it. All of the myriad problems of capitalism, from planned obsolescence to poverty to needing to “protect” a “job”, would disappear in face of a single solution: