Babies of all species have to learn from their parents and their peers. We used to simply have to learn the art of survival, which berries to eat, how to hunt, how to cook, where it was safe to sleep, but the learning experience has become far more sophisticated over the millenniums. Yet like all things the fundamentals never change.
Money is merely a survival mechanism, and the more I read of people trying to infuse trust and nobleness into the monetary system the more I smile at the tension between making money in the day-to-day and the betterment of human thinking. It is one thing of course to have to make one’s way in the world and provide for one’s family (something that can be done with a lot of work and surprisingly little actual money as a field and a river can supply food and power) and quite another to lend a helping hand, give freely to the community and expect no return.
For example it is much wiser for the species for there to be nothing we may term ‘illegal immigrants’ because people want better lived and it would be a better world if the rich countries helped and educated those who were poorer. But of course, money is not about bettering the human race but about making it richer for money has its own rationale that has nothing to do with trust or nobility and everything to do with borders and national interest.
Which is why the human race must leave moeny behind in the dustiness of history if it is ever to be at peace with itself.