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Money: Humanity’s Greatest Commodity



Welcome to the future. Welcome to capitalism, the Age of Greed. Welcome to the Space Age, the Age of More. Welcome to the Age of L. Ron Hubbard. Welcome to the age in which your emotions are placed upon a line graph, and evaluated in today’s status report. Welcome to the age of not quality, but quantity. Welcome to your life. The greatest commodity in human history, and the one thing responsible for the great evolution of materialism and consumerism is money. Throughout human history, commerce has grown from simple trading to a way of life. Before the invention of currency, the idea of owning as much as possible did not exist. Commerce was simply trading goods for goods, and value lied within the work of the people, and the eye of the beholder.

The idea of currency is to organize commerce and to put set values to different products, to prevent buyers from being swindled. It sets universal standards upon which things must be sold. Unfortunately, this good point of currency does more bad than good. To put all value within pieces of paper or coins is to drain the actual products of their own value, and to put it all into the amount of pieces of paper. It makes the idea of value an intangible abstraction, a concept that becomes an inconceivable number, rather than the products, making humans feel only as good as the number in their bank account. Not only does this drain products of all value, but it sets value as a mathematical quantity, a number that we can only imagine as infinite. This fuels one of the most dangerous emotions of humankind: greed.

Before the existence of currency, the idea of owning everything did not exist, nor was it necessary. Greed was a small problem that did not affect the structure of society as much as today. Nowadays, money gives people the thought and sometimes the goal of owning everything, since the idea of value nowadays is infinite. Corporations form and grow, with one goal in mind: to conquer the world, in affect taking everyone with it.

Money deteriorates the value of items. It deteriorates the sentimental value of art, goods, and even people. It fuels the dehumanization of humans, via the cold technicality of focusing mathematical “volume” to value, rather than the importance to ourselves as individuals. The idea of money becomes a fuel to one’s greed, and sets the standard of materialism to be infinite. It puts value, not in talent or mental sensibility, but the number that sits in your bank account. Welcome to the Age of More. Welcome to your whole existence placed upon the line graph. Welcome to the Age of Money. Welcome to your life.