Now I'm really angry

Having just gotten really frustrated and depressed because my best friend told me she's been having money problems lately (plus my own long internal battle about having money versus doing what I want and screwing the consequences), I've decided I don't like money.

It forces people to take jobs they don't like, to stay at jobs they hate, and it causes everyone to have that awful feeling like someone's just punched you in the stomach when you realize you don't have enough of it. Money (or more specifically, lack thereof) is the dream-killer. Money breaks up relationships quicker than anything else will. Money causes people to hurt other people all the world around.

Yes, I agree that thin, lightweight money is easier than lugging gold bars around, and certainly easier than having to lug cows around in a barter system. But money has become the end, when once (far too long ago) it was the convenient means to an end.

The problem here is I don't have a solution. I can't make anyone else's money problems go away, any more than I can solve my own. I can't free myself from a money system, since I don't really see any practical alternative. And I can't stop feeling like someone's punched me in the stomach.

(N.B. I'm now angrier than ever, since I just had to delete and re-post this message, since some random spam blogger (yes, they're on blog sites now!) decided to post some long and incomprehensible advertisement about how to make money. argh.)