Money is an item (physical, such as a coin or a bill, or [virtual](virtual.md), such as a record somewhere in a database) that is widely used with the primary (and usually only) purpose of carrying economic value so as to be used for making payments. **Money spoils everything** and in [capitalism](capitalism.md) money is everywhere. As Richard Muller says in one of his songs: "happiness is a beautiful thing, but it can't buy you money". It is said that money is the root of all [evil](evil.md) -- it is so because money embodies a system of competition for resources, and [competition](competition.md) itself is root of all evil. Evil people are attracted by money and money is attracted by evil people. Money enables, creates and supports social inequality, corruption, oppression, greed, loss of morality, materialistic thinking, economic instability and many other undesirable phenomena. Standardized money (for example specific bank notes, coins or [cryptocurrency](crypto.md)) is called [currency](currency.md).
Things that money can buy include happiness, [love](love.md), [sex](sex.md), family, [people](people.md), stress-free life, luxury, freedom, food, health, [education](education.md), awards, skills, authority, good looks, [law](law.md), power, fame, [rights](rights_culture.md), [anonymity](anonymity.md), safety, [science](soyence.md), [logic](logic.md), [truth](truth.md), [justice](justice.md), injustice, voters, slaves, [life](life.md), [death](death.md), [war](war.md), peace, victory, loss, information, advice, public opinion, obedience, respect, entertainment, media, countries, all physical things and more money. So does selling your soul to the devil.
Money is a tool of oppression, it forces [slavery](work.md) onto people while creating an illusion of "[progress](progress.md)" by adding an indirection that tricks the stupid into thinking we no longer use physical violence to force people to labor -- in the past physical violence was often used directly to force slaves to do the bidding of a master, today if a slave refuses to work, we don't use violence directly, we just refuse the slave money which will lead to violence and torture only indirectly: for example he will be forced to live in homelessness, in a place of poverty and increased criminality, he will be denied healthcare and hunger will eventually force him to steal which will result in him being beaten by the police. So we still use violence to force people to work, we just do it indirectly through money, which idiots with microbrains can no longer see. By this the capitalist system eliminated the possibility of being overthrown by workers as revolution requires masses of people revolting and because majority of people are stupid, not being able to see the abuse (not being able to comprehend indirection), they will never revolt.
Sadly capitalism forced EVERYONE to deal with money, even those who hate it. How to handle this? **Correct relationship towards money** you should have as an [LRS](lrs.md) follower:
- **Hate money**, always aim for eliminating money from society. Does this mean you should hate having money? No, this means you should hate *having to have money*.
- **Minimize damage money does**, i.e. firstly do NOT run capitalist businesses that steal money from the poor (basically every business eventually does this through some level of indirection), that makes money harm others. Secondly make money do less damage to yourself, i.e. do not rid yourself of money by burning them or anything, just use them to live in less pain. You can also **use money for good** -- if you have enough, just give it to someone in need. Don't teach people to fish, just give them the fucking fish if you have tons of them. Remember than **being rich means being a murderer** because you are just sitting on resources that could simply save lives of many, just by having a lot of money and doing nothing you are killing people, so don't be rich -- if you are, just give money to someone.
- **Use money to become independent of money**, i.e. only make money so that you don't have to care about money, NOT to consume more of capitalist production. With regards to "winning a lottery" most people nowadays have the attitude of "I'd keep living the same but I would buy a bigger house and could wear luxury clothes", which is the retarded stance that only enslaves you more and increases overall damage to everyone. The correct thinking is "I would stop working so that I could be more free and do more good without having to make profit anymore". Also it's not important how much you make but how much you save from your income, it doesn't matter you make $100K per month if your living costs $100K -- rather make $500 and save $200, put it in gold or something so that it doesn't lose value and then every once in a while you can take a year off from slavery.
- **Don't become a slave to money**, i.e. don't spend your thinking time on investments, accounting, protecting your funds, insurances, currencies, businesses to make more money etc. Just as with technology, make some minimal setup that just makes you not have to think about money, EVEN if it costs something (i.e. makes you lose something to inflation etc.). { I'm real retarded about economy but it may be good to e.g. have some cash ready (like for quarter of a year of living), then some saving bank account (where more money goes and possibly gets some small interest but is still available somehow) and then some physical gold to protect from inflation. Anyway even this may be too much for many to worry about, feel free to even just go all cash in your mattress if you want to avoid bank software and such shit, it's all fine. ~drummyfish }
