Born Shouting

Money is a counter in the game of life, who plays best or is luckiest has most. It could be worse, we could be hacking each other into small pieces with stone axes.

One fact that should be clear to you by now. Money-making is aggression. That’s the whole thing. The functionalisitic explanation is the only one. People come to the market to kill. They say, “I’m going to make a killing.” It’s not accidental. Only they haven’t got the genuine courage to kill, and they erect a symbol of it. The money. They make a killing by a fantasy.

Dr Tamkin in ‘Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics)‘ by Saul Below.

With my luck on the stock market, I’d be a goner by now…