Money Is The Greatest Anti-Depressant Ever…
Don’t ever be fooled that the opposite is true.
The pursuit of money is the root of all evil, is what they tell us.
This phrase which emanated from the bible certainly did not feature in the heads of those who shipped Africans in the millions to the new world or in the heads of those who plundered Asia, Africa and other parts of the world for their personal gain during the age of colonialism.
Nor did it feature in the heads of our friends in Wall Street.
Gordon Gekko-the protagonist in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, told the whole world that greed is good and the very basis of our existence — and many folks around the world agreed with his analysis.
And the pursuit of wonga, dosh, greenback, capital, liquidity, dough, cheese, D’argent and the many other words for money today hasn’t abated through the peaks and troughs of global finance in 1987, 2008 and 2020.
If anything, it has seriously intensified.
Its ruthless pursuit by those at the top of the food chain is the root cause of the grotesque inequality in our world.
And there’s nothing more depressing than the lack of money: it fuels anxiety, poor sexual performance, sleepless nights and ultimately poor health.