In treating people as less important than things, work becomes both demoralised and demoralising and we become blind to the moral content of our decisions...Money and wilfful blindness make us act in ways incompatible wiht what believe our ethics to be, and often even with our own self-interest...the problem with money isn't fundamentally about greed, although it can be comforting to think so. The problem with money is that we live in societies in which mutual support and co-operation is essential, but money erodes the relationships we need to lead productive, fulfilling and genuinely happy lives. When money becomes the dominant behavior, it doesn't cooperate with, or amplify, our relationships; it disengages us from them.
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Margaret Heffernan was American entrepreneur, ceo, writer and keynote speaker. Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and keynote speaker. She is currently a professor of Practice at the University of Bath School of Management in the UK and, in 2021, was inaugurated into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame for her lasting contribution to Management Thinking. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Money — Thoughts on wealth, value, and material pursuits

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