Money, the pest of this world

You will not find anything similar to money in this world. It is the only thing that creates the same result when available or unavailability in any form, state, or flavor.

Just a Slave

It makes you a slave of it no matter how much you have: nothing, a bit, less than nothing, a lot, or even much more than a lot. And it’s not only money in the form you know it. It’s money in the form of any exchange.

From Barter to Money

From the very beginning, when humans started to exchange things, from barter to the forms of money as you know them now, it took a controlling position in every aspect of life, existence, a guard who decides if you live, when, and how happy you are allowed to be if you have food to eat and feed your children if you can enjoy the view of a blue ocean, or even how long you can live.

Bathing in an old concept. Money

You get born bathing in the idea of money, its concept, and reality; you grow up with it always present, closer to you than anything else, persistently visible and invisible at the same time while you can never escape. Money feels so normal; you accept it as given, valid, natural, and the thing you need to live, move, survive, and be happy. It's like the air you need to breathe. Even the conscious acceptance that everything depends on money is present and accepted, and exchange is the right way of building societies.

In every kind of societal structure or system established since the beginning of the forming of evolutionarily developed conscious decision-making, exchange was present. You can say money was always there waiting for you to evolve, stand on both your feet, and discover fire. Before you barely started cooking, you already knew very well what money is.

A lesson from history

If you consider human history, the time of the Pharaohs was a time when massive numbers of slaves existed. They were born and died as slaves, but they knew where they stood. Sometimes, they watched those who were free and dared to dream of such freedom, imagining they were free, too. Some may have strived for freedom or even tried to escape.

Now, when the lack of money is present in someone's life, he (with very few exceptions) does not dream of freedom; he dreams of more money. Some call it escaping the matrix, but money is the cage everyone lives in, like living in a cage with one banana to eat or a whole banana tree with ripe, attractive bananas. It's just where you look at. The cage's rusty metal bars or the ripe bananas.  But just because you may ignore the cage doesn't make it go away. You are always locked up, and the question remains unanswered.

Do you want to be free?

The next step

Let's assume one strives for freedom. But how does one know what freedom looks like and feels like?

And what is it good for?

We will explore the nature of freedom, free choice, and its effects on the available decision chains that form paths that have never been explored. Coming soon here.