Author: clfuu

Money doesn’t just buy the things we need or want, like groceries and heating, it also buys big ticket items like political influence.

In the face of Big Money politics, what do you see as the most powerful tool of those who are not wealthy?

“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.” ―Henry David Thoreau

What is the most essential thing that you buy with your money?

The saying goes that “The business of business is business.” But is that true? Is the chief or only point of a corporation to make money, or do businesses have an obligation to serve some larger purpose beyond financial gain?

What would you say are the responsibilities of businesses?

Money is a fiction—a common understanding we agree to share about bits of metal and paper or numbers on a computer—and yet it is the thing that takes of the greatest part of most people’s time and attention.

In what area of your life does that fiction of money feel most urgent and real?

An infinity of shapes are inherent in the clay—and if you don’t like what you get you can always mush it up and start again. The clay only becomes rigid and fixed once it is fired.  That, of course, is the point at which it becomes useful.

Are you more engaged by possibilities or results?