[MD] Capitalism: my experience

[gav]

correction: 'the *love of* money is the root of all evil', that is the exact quote.
mammon mia


--- On Sun, 21/2/10, gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> From: gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au>
> Subject: [MD] Capitalism: my experience
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> 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?
> 
> 
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