This will be more of an observation than an exciting blog posting, but it strikes me that more and more these days, people are obsessed with money. I guess it's always been the case, but we're in a time with humanity where most of us have more than enough for anything we need, and yet more and more of us are complaining about not having enough. Almost every conversation I have with people at the moment is finance based. Everyone is talking about price rises, and fuel poverty, and interest rates, and mortgages, and it's all negative doomy stuff, as if money has ceased to exist and we're all about to become penniless, worthless and hopeless. And most of the people saying these things are in full time employment, live in nice houses, and drive nice cars, so I don't really see what they have to be worried about. It's as if we've been brainwashed to think that what you have is the only important factor in determining how good your life is, and everyone is constantly trying to feel better by attaining more. We have people on holiday with us at the moment asking to borrow the use of an office laptop because their phone reception is bad and they need to check their bank account. When I asked why they vitally needed to do this while in the middle of a family holiday, they looked at me like I was a piece of turd floating in their soup and said, "I haven't been able to see it since Monday". So there was nothing urgent happening, there was no real need for them to keep up to date, they were just obsessively wanting to look at their financial situation, because that's what they do every day. I'm sure that's not healthy, but I'm sure it's quite common. We don't really have any control over most aspects of our life, but we can pretend we do by watching closely from an app while the powers that be do what they like with our existences.
Not really sure where I'm going with all this. But I try not to think about money too much, and I try to avoid people who do, and that's becoming increasingly hard because so many people seem obsessed with it.
The pandemic really didn't teach us anything about what's important, did it?
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