Money is an insanely toxic mental, political, and social poison, for exactly these kinds of reasons.
It's also a social reward function that privileges egotism and narcissism over empathy; exploitation, scamming, and rent-seeking over creativity, curiosity and invention; and short-term gain over long-term damage.
Like the hardest of hard addictive drugs, it's an almost irresistible modifier of behaviour and attitude.
It's also a social reward function that privileges egotism and narcissism over empathy; exploitation, scamming, and rent-seeking over creativity, curiosity and invention; and short-term gain over long-term damage.
Like the hardest of hard addictive drugs, it's an almost irresistible modifier of behaviour and attitude.