Money has the tendency to change people for the worse.

To be fair, the Bible never says that money is the root of all evil. It’s the ‘love’ of money. That’s a different thing. Money itself is just a material symbol used to regulate the exchange of goods and services. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Barter seems like a better idea until you need something, but nobody wants/needs the specific items or services you personally have to offer. Economic inflation is a problem for sure though.

I really don’t think that the average person even has the option to become hyper focused on ‘real wealth’. A lot of people are in debt though, that’s for sure.

I think.. if anything what would help is if as a society, or at least in the States, we reoriented to consider Life planning and financial decisions that minimize stress. Chronic stress is what turns the average person into a miserable, problematic jerk.

Is anyone willing to test this theory by loaning me 10 million dollars?

I'm a big fan of reorganizing society around deprioritizing wealth. That largely involves heavy investment by governments to use automation and robots to make as many essential goods and services as possible free to access. The idea is to push money into the want category instead of the need.

We are still quite a ways from this, both technologically and with people being in a mindset to embrace it. But i think it would be better for us long term to begin charting our paths to that day.