It’s enfuriating that we’ve been forced, over the last 40ish years, to accept that narrative that everything is a zero-sum game, everything is transactional, everything is valued in dollars and nonsense.
Money only means what it needs to mean. Too many people have been convinced it must needs mean everything, and we’re all suffering because money is a scoreboard, a tool, a proxy of worth and value, and not just a means to abstracting labour, the true wealth.