People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.
If we give something value, it becomes valuable.
In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.