We have made money an ends, not just a means. We now see more to money than just its instrumental worth. We now see intrinsic worth in it. But that worth isn’t real, just like the value of the dollar isn’t real.

Herein lies the problem of profit today, and of economy in general today…treating money as an ends not a means.
… We seem to think that life is nothing more than a rat race, and our fellow humans are no more our rivals, who must either team up with us or watch out. Society has forgotten that there are other motives than making money for jobs. But surely if they went to the teachers and nurses… they would see that there is much more to vocation than salary. But they don’t. They go to the rich and the famous. They spend hours watching the rich bribe their way out of court cases, instead of watching the lawyers who work more than their quota of pro bono cases. They focus on the drug dealers breaking the law to get money, instead of the cop who risks life and limb to give them a safer society.

Their testimony goes unheard. And so do the voices of the visionaries who see a future in which people actually care about one another. These visionaries are called idealistic, and unreasonable. They’re written off as dreamers, and are never taken seriously. But I’m here to say that the future they dreamed of is possible.