Sylvanna Devlin

Okay what an interesting day and age. Is money the root of all evil? I don’t know. It’s an interesting question.

What I know for certain is that money is separate from a a desire to nest and have comforts. I call that materialism, not the pink Camaro version, and not the same as capitalism. Just a love for and appreciation of physical things. I also argue money is a communication tool.

Can is be used for evil? Yes.

Do people go insane over it? Yes.

It can certainly be a problem.

But so can a sword and a shield.

And the pen.

Do I need swords and shields if other do? Of course. Just these days I need help with that. Do I need a pen yes, but what I need most from you is to read what you love and see what resonates. Hopefully love what you read too.

And thinking yes, thank you computer.

Is capitalism evil?

Oh good question. I don’t know. It’s certainly problematic.

Maybe we shouldn’t call anything evil. It would be less divisive.

We formed in groups to barter goods and services, those groups settled into villages as we farmed and that was possible with exchange. At some point someone thought of making exchange easier and we went form gold, to coin, to paper to digital. Lighter and harder to understand each time. Big numbers with lots of zeros buy lots of nests so please fucking get other people into them with that! With a few comforting twigs around them.

Seriously what are we evil? Is everything we base cities on evil?

Well okay I can see why you would think so but the answer is no.

Now. Here is where Jesus was really going. Our instincts to horde are not healthy and not helpful and money seems to be in the fucking middle of that! Root no, you just cant reduce the complexity that way. But I could see why one would.