6 April

We can be very pious about money. Nothing can set off moralising faster than money. Root of all evil, etc. But I think money is very misunderstood. It was humankind’s attempt to give us a way to measure what is valuable and exchange things. The criticisms it gets relate to the fact that it can’t always do that in nuanced ways. But the pious reaction goes in the wrong direction - it’s not that we need to reject money, we need far MORE ways of measuring value, to add to it. Money was just a first step in the right direction.