In keeping with the sacredness of all things, I advocate an embrace, not an eschewing, of materialism. I think we will love our things more and not less. We will treasure our material possessions, honor where they
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came from and where they will go
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, such an attitude is uneconomic; it is rarely in anyone’s financial interest to treat a thing as sacred.
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The cheapness of our things is part of their devaluation
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we commonly associate freedom with wealth.
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he paradise of financial freedom is a mirage, receding as we approach it
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and that the chase itself enslaves.
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The anxiety is always there, the scarcity always just one disaster away. We call that chase greed. Truly, it is a response to the perception of scarcity.
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Economics, it says on page one of textbooks, is the study of human behavior under conditions of scarcity. The expansion of the economic realm is therefore the expansion of scarcity, its incursion into areas of life once characterized by abundance.