Too much of this for too long, and civil war is guaranteed

[Skybird]

Money may just be a tool, but as such it can buy you satisfaction. Adress your vital needs. Can buy you relief. Can even buy you happiness, although that will be of temporary nature only.

If you do not beleive it, then try to survive in the civilized world without money. Chances are all you will get that way is unhappiness, and despair.

Never underestimate to have the right tool available for the right task, at the right time.

And please, nobody now trying to adress that clichée once again that you cannot eat gold. Try to eat if you have no "gold". Difficult.

We ought to have as if having nothing, should own things without attachment to them, and without too much love for temporary things - else we face disappointment again sooner or later since we love temporary things then, and what is temporary only cannot last and will leave us again.

Where this is not understood, money possesses even him who claims he despises money. You can be a millionaire and not being owned by things - while you also can refuse money: but only because you are obsessed with it.

Have money, and the degrees of freedom in your life will raise. Have no money, and your degrees of freedom in your life will shrink.