Extreme Money

Faith – confidence of belief based not on proof but trust in a person, thing or teaching.

In the later half of the twentieth century, a ‘money culture’ came to dominate. Money changed from a mechanism of exchange into something important in its own right. It ceased to be a claim on real things, becoming instead a way of creating wealth, increasing economic activity and promoting growth.

Money came to dominate individual lives, through saving for retirement and debt to finance consumption. Companies relied on money games to boost profit. Newly deregulated banks took advantage of the new opportunities to move into central roles in modern economies. ...