Single Idea 23841

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality]

Full Idea

By making money the sole, or almost the sole, motive of all actions, the sole, or almost the sole, measure of all things, the poison of inequality has been introduced everywhere.

Gist of Idea

By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal

Source

Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], I 'Equality')

Book Reference

Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.18


A Reaction

Presumably this dates right back to the invention of money, and then increases with the endless rise of capitalism.

Related Idea

Idea 20720 Time is money, ..credit is money, ..and money breeds more money [Franklin]