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How To Change Your Relationship to Money
Like it or not, money is at the centre of our lives. It fascinates, confuses, motivates, exhilarates, worries and depresses us. It determines our quality of everyday living, mediates our social relationships and determines how others perceive us. It’s also at the heart of power.
As members of a consumer society, we need to think carefully about what attitude we should take towards money, both on a personal and social level.
Have we as individuals become too obsessed by money, suffering from what psychologist Oliver James calls ‘affluenza’? Is becoming rich necessary in order to have power and influence? What happens when our desires and expectations are not met?
In the wake of the global financial crisis, we’ll ask whether money is a social good or evil, and look at how it influences our ideas and practices of equality and justice. Should we be blaming the rich for poverty, or are they part of the solution rather than the problem?
This is not a lesson in bulking up your bank balance but rather an adventurous exploration into the philosophy of money that will help you radically rethink your attitude to material wealth.
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