Because we make money a central issue, we organized ourselves around money.

We did not organize ourselves around people. We did not organize ourselves around nature. We did not organize ourselves around our needs and desires. We did not organize ourselves around the important things.

So, we are dependent on money, which means we go for something that has an internal lever all by itself, not based on us, but based on itself, and then we go have fun, dividing ourselves against one another, getting as much of what we can get away with.

Don't get me wrong. Some people got really creative to obtain money. We have entire industries based on people wanting to get as much money as they can get, while being super creative at the same time as well.

But the fantastic creativity is not the essence from a collective perspective (yes, some people are lucky and have it all). In society, we are generally slaves to the dollar. Most of us are not slaves to ourselves.

In the end, we feel lucky when we end up having the normal things in life around is: a home, a family, a space to call our very own.

But these are all normal things. It is money that made the normal things become special by not handing out money to us all or at the level that we all need it. Worse? People that are poor end up having more babies than they could 'afford' pushing them into deeper trouble, not capable of delivering themselves what they need.

It is a vicious cycle for those at the bottom segment of the money pit.

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It looks like you are doing okay, Ray. You have time to write excellent articles we all like to read. We need more folks like you. We need people to tell us what it is that we are doing, and how we can end up being unhappy that way.