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🌤️ Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants. Money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek.

🥺 Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money.

Is this the reason why you call it evil?
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Tomek ⚡ K 2y ago

Only the man who does not need it is fit to inherit wealth - the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. However, you look on and you cry that money corrupted him... 🤔

... Did it?

... Or did he corrupt his money?

Do not envy a worthless heir - his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you. Loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune. 🟥

💰 💀 Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it.

Is this the reason why you call it evil?

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Tomek ⚡ K 2y ago

Money is your means of survival. 🧠

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence.

🙈Did you get your money by fraud?

🙈By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity?

🙈By catering to fools in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves?

🙈By lowering your standards?

🙈By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn?

- If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame...

Then you will scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?