Its not money we need, but wealth:
…If … we measure a thing or commodity by something which is not its end, we do not give its absolute value, but only its relative value. Yet how many modern minds, when asked the value of a commodity, think in terms of the end of the commodity? If we are asked, ‘ What is the value of a hundred-weight of wheat?’ we naturally say ‘Eight, ten, or twelve shillings.’ We do not say ‘A hundredweight of wheat will support a man’s life for six months.’ In other words, by expressing a hundredweight in terms of currency we gave, not its value, but only its money-value. No wonder that minds accustomed to the atmosphere of currency find themselves in an intellectual money-muddle…
…How great the plight must sooner or later befall a people that has lost the art of giving things their real value, and has entrusted the commonweal to the muddled judgment of men who are experts only in money value. – Fr. Vincent McNabb
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