A Facebook friend of mine posted on his wall:
'Why are we raised with such shame about saying loud and proud: ‘I Love Money!’'
The following were my brief thoughts:
'I've been thinking about this a lot myself.
We all need stuff from the world and it seems less than enlightened to me to shun the medium of exchange required to get our needs met, yet this shunning is often framed as the more enlightened approach.
To answer your question, i think it could be to do with how our caregivers treated the expression of our needs as dependent children going back generations.
Many of us were treated as bad people for having needs, so rather than criticize and confront the caregivers who denied our needs; maybe framing the eschewal of money as an enlightened way to be is the only other option, thus re-framing it as a virtue as a defence mechanism against confronting the parents responsible.
I'm proud to say that sometimes i just want to be a filthy capitalist ;-)'
Title inspired by:
Antony Sammeroff
https://www.youtube.com/user/EnrichYourLife1/feed