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Money, Sex, Power & Faith — Episode 1 — Preface
Money and I have a complicated history. It’s not like we’ve had a very intimate relationship, and there have been many times that I would regard it as more of an acquaintance than a friend. Because money seems to be causing distress in its relationship with so many other people as well, there was a time, about 10 years ago, that I severed our relationship for almost an entire year.
This is not to say that I don’t like money. I think it has extraordinary potential. However, I don’t think that it is always understood very well, and as a tool, it has not always been used by people who wield it in order to get the most potential out of it for all involved. Instead, it has regularly been used to enable mental illness and often used as a weapon.
Nevertheless, I feel that it is similar to sex, power, and faith in that they have all been major contributors to the world we know, and yet, they have also been sorely misunderstood. So after I attempted my year of living without the use of money, I started looking into the history of money, and I found that it was remarkably linked to sex, power, and faith in the development of what we have come to know as civilization.
Considering the historic levels of economic inequality we currently face, with 1% of the population now hoarding the majority of the wealth, I think it would…
