What’s wrong with money?

Question from the Internet:

“If the love of money is the root of all evil as money is the root of nearly every problem in the world, and doesn’t solve any problems (everything can easily be free), why don’t we just get rid of money?”

Money, love of money is not the root of evil.

The “love of ourselves”, our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and exploitative nature is.

Money is simply a trading tool to facilitate the exchange of products. But then we realized that by accumulating money and creating a world that is based on quantitative growth, respect, and power based on material wealth and accumulation of resources money has become the symbol of life, the symbol of superiority over others, the tool of exploiting and manipulating others.

Removing money from the equation will not solve anything, it is symptomatic treatment without addressing the root cause — our own nature. Moreover, for example, crypto-currencies are a certain way of trying to get rid of money, leading to the same results. We also tried other trade facilitators like gold, or we have stocks and various other means that can be used as money, but always used with the same human nature, intention.

The problem with money is the same as the problem with technology, entertainment, culture, politics, society, our relation to Nature, and everything else.

Without changing our own nature, without learning how to interconnect and co-exist, cooperate as Nature’s elements do we are “agents of destruction, death” instead of facilitating life and optimal development.

And then we haven’t even talked about our actual purpose in life — instead of simply being wealthy and exploiting, controlling others, proving how great we are…