“Most of our important relationships with other humans are monetary in nature. We have employment contracts, lending contracts, pension agreements, annuities, welfare, taxes, and, more broadly speaking, the prices paid for goods and services. The basis for all of these relationships is money. When the money becomes ‘immoral,’ all of these relationships also lose their moral character. Instead of investors, builders and producers, we become traders: trading assets; trading jobs; trading money for favors; trading spouses; trading our supposed ‘beliefs,’ for short-term gain in a zero-sum, and in fact negative-sum society.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2012/10/28/the-social-deterioration-of-funny-floating-money/
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