correction: 'the *love of* money is the root of all evil', that is the exact quote. mammon mia
--- On Sun, 21/2/10, gav <[email protected]> wrote: > From: gav <[email protected]> > Subject: [MD] Capitalism: my experience > To: [email protected] > Received: Sunday, 21 February, 2010, 7:03 PM > hiya, > just thought i'd share something i became aware of recently > whilst working as a gardener. > > late last year i was travelling around the country and had > stopped to see friends in a town called castlemaine > north-west of melbourne, in country victoria. whilst there i > picked up some gardening work through a friend and did some > gardening at a couple of places, working with a very > interesting bibliophile called john. > > anyway to cut to the story - i didn't enjoy getting up and > going to work - i didn't want to do it. it wasn't any > problem with the work or with john, or the locations. i only > figured out what it was sometime afterwards. > > after working with john i spent the best part of a week > doing a gardening job for my friends in castlemaine - to say > thanks for letting me stay with them. i mowed, snipped and > tidied their gardens; built two vegetable beds and a 3-bay > composting system and eventually planted it all up (i got a > text two days ago telling me my friends in castlemaine were > eating lettuce, basil and tomatoes from out of their > garden). this work was a joy to do - i enjoyed it immensely > - it was creative and absorbing and stress free. > > what i realised through all this is that working for money > is an essentially alienating exercise. working for free, or > as exchange is quite different - it is ...noble. it builds > trust, friendships, community.... > > money is the root of all evil? > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
