Money is GREAT!

And you shouldn’t feel guilty about it.

I was raised in a middle-class Christian family. It sounds cliché but it is not. Christian family, but spiritist. Middle-class but always with a lot of work. I have grandparents and uncles also from the middle class but with much more money and assets than my parents. I also have uncles with much less money than my parents. So I can say that I know a very wide spectrum of wealth levels.

And during my education, I have heard several times that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. I also heard a lot that you can’t serve both God and Mammon. My Christian education was in charge of practically demonizing money for me. I also had no financial education and never quite knew what to do with the money I earned.

My wealthier grandparents gave me money as a birthday, children’s day, and Christmas gift. I longed for that money and spent days weighing all the possibilities that that money would give me. How many ice creams I could have, how many Super Nintendo games I could buy, how many books, things, things… I liked that feeling of freedom of being able to choose what to do with that money.

I don’t know exactly where in my life that feeling of freedom became resentment. I started to believe that money was the greatest evil in the world. That everything wrong in the world happens because of money. And the whole media leads us to believe that only ruined people have money. Corrupt politicians, soap operas where the rich man is the villain always wanting to increase his profits. There is always someone willing to do anything to get rich and that is always a problem in a negative way.

Don’t get me wrong, profit, and enrichment at any cost is wrong. But it is not the money that is to blame. It is about how people use and abuse money. Big companies abuse their big capital to buy politicians for more and more profits. Whether through a more “flexible” labor law or through illegal contracts with the government. At the other end are people who don’t know how to use money and are therefore used by it. As many workers who earn a lot of money as the poor who sell themselves for very little.

In this context, it is easy to understand that the villain is money. Novels, films, books…

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