why we are not free

The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

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Money is just a financing tool, one of the oldest and most important one in fact, that without which the economy will be thrown back to the prehistorical barter system (aka can I buy your house with 100k jugs of milk).

There's nothing wrong nor inhuman about wanting better things in life. What is wrong is living beyond your current means. It's one thing to find a better job or start your own business to try and fiance your ability to purchase additional goods, it's quite another to blow through credit card after credit card with no plan nor means to ever pay back the debt.

If anything, it's the lack of financial knowledge that's causing the current wave of personal fiance crisis, not some commercials.

As for things been monetized, why should other people work for free for you? Things that are monetized are things that other people have to work to provide for you. The swimming pool is built by workers, didn't just grown out of the earth. Fishing is pretty much free unless you want to rent the sticks. It's a trade, you want others to work to service you, you gotta give them something that pays for their work.