Only thinking about money

The emptiness of this way of thinking is clear  
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For it reduces life to money 
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Indeed the well known phrase "Time is money" implies this..
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Yet the reduction of life to money is exactly what is happening through the choices we make.
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And others we are compelled to make.
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It is exactly what is happening whenever technology makes our lives more 'convenient'.
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The reduction of life to money is exactly what is happening through the vast conversion of all forms of social, spiritual, cultural, and natural capital into financial capital.
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This in turn destroys all those institutions and cultural structures built up over the millennia.
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Leaving us with paid for lives.
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Lives devoted to gaining money to pay for all those things that were shared before.
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Charles Eisenstein

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Funny how few seem to have noticed what we have really lost over the last fifty years.
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Increasing separation
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Fewer things shared
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Loss of community
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Less and less time to ourselves.
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And now comes the time where it all begins to flop out into our consciousness.
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Where we begin to see and understand what we have lost.
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A life devoted to money is not a life it is slavery.
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Unthinking slavery to our things.
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Things offering shiny improvements to our lives, what a con.
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When you take away relationships, when you reduce everything to transactions you take away the soul of things.
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Never mind that our current global situation is becoming ever more precarious and will bring us face to face with a very different set of experiences.
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Maybe through these we can find what we have lost.