The Purpose of Money

You might naïvely think that the purpose of money is to encourage productivity, e.g. a child gets a bigger allowance if they do more chores. However, people have learned to game the system. Now money also rewards risk taking, law breaking, unethical behaviour, trashing the environment, putting the public at risk, exploiting others, usury, deception, speculation, bribery… The original idea was money would give the wealthy some extra privileges, some extra creature comforts, but now that people have learned to game the system to divert astronomical sums of money to themselves, they use it for other purposes, such as a competitive game, political power, getting people to do things they do not want to do, conspicuous consumption, conspicuous waste and general environment trashing.

~ Roedy (born:1948-02-04 age:68)