"Descartes popularized the idea that reality is limited to what we can measure. Economists have taken this error farther by thinking that value is the same as money, so they don't notice that many of the foundations of value and wealth in our society are declining.
...the dominant culture uses money not just to measure material value, but to measure human value and moral value: the more money that passes through your hands, the more successful and virtuous you are. By this logic, Jesus Christ was a parasite and Bernard Madoff was God."
via Ran Prieur, dated Oct 3, 2009, referring to an article at The Archdruid Report.
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