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What’s Money Got to Do With It?
To say, all writers come to Medium to make money, is one heck of a sweeping generalization! (Kristy Lynn, ‘I Wrote on Medium for One Year and This is What I Learnt). There are in fact, a lot of articles on Medium singing from the same hymn book. Not Kristy Lynn, but others are writing repeatedly about how to drum up ideas for writing, how to drum up views etc etc, all with the view of the Holy Grail, what’s become the First Commandment of Market Fundamentalism: Make Money, or ‘Turn Your Time, Into Money’.
Yes, in the capitalist, Western-imperialism’s resource-chomping world order, in which each person’s worth is calculated by how much we earn and what we possess, with the endless repetitions of this mantra, we can get misaligned from our true purpose and deep needs.
We were taken away from self-sufficiency within communal forms of living, and pushed into industrialization and concomitantly, the atomization of life. In the U.K, being forced to leave villages, due to the capture of the commons by the self-serving ‘landowners/aristocrats’, people lost touch with their communities of birth, and individualism and the nuclear family were promoted. In all the white — invaded lands eg USA, Canada, Australia — with compulsory education, came enforced patterns of competition inculcated in children. Your…
