It seems for a long time people have thought that there is a dichotomy —a choice between—love and money: a dualism between the spiritual and the material. Money or achievement or the material have been criticized and demonized for a long time. When it is the most basic thing and the most important thing to most people by far. Most people don’t have a lot. They don’t have enough food or shelter or warmth or water. The material. Or money. And extrapolation of things like that.
Love, of course is of utmost priority. But it really cannot exist in a world of destitution so well. Some will tell you it’s a choice: either self or others—when really it isn’t. It just so happens that the better off you are or become, the more loving and caring you become. And what is that care usually? Food and shelter and water and warmth. Some form of money.
The spiritual and the material are connected. The are parallel and interdependent. Without the material you could be the most spiritual person in the universe—for a few hours. Until you are dead. Then it doesn’t matter how loving you are. How spiritual you are. And if you claim you can go to the next body, that body will die also in a few hours. With selfishness, You will become self-less--literally. So you need both.
And selfishness is multiplied with trade. People dividing labor and both being better off doing less work; and being motivated by serving each other. Material wellbeing is multiplied with free trade; with money. And this material wellbeing allows and advances our recreation, leisure, arts and spirituality and advances our communalism--without any governing authority (inasmuch is possible). And this division of labor and trade inspires care for others; an agriculturalism (more flow of auro from and to yourself and family and others)
The more we advance materially, the better off we are. Along with the hopefully obvious spiritually: love.
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