People don’t get that if they can’t talk about money, they are enforcing the cultural demand that we are defined by our income.

On other words, divide and conquer.

There is another, much more insidious aspect to keeping all money matter secret. Mammals bluff. Actually most animals bluff.

Bluffing is getting something for nothing.

Think about it: go $100,000s in debt, get the house, the car, the spouse, all the best that money can buy. And it doesn’t matter whose money.

Reproduce.

You win. Even when you lose, you still win.

The cost to society of easy credit is incalculable. For USA, you can start in the low trillions and revise upward every time some congress critter opens his or her mouth.

But now I’m hijacking, and I have my 1 year Website In A Weekend Happy Anniversary post to finish.

Bye bye.

“I’d have coped much more easily with him taking his clothes off.”

In one sentence you summed up my entire piece. My friend, you know ’bout economy.

And I don’t have a giving budget but now I’m going to get one. It goes against my wing-it, ad-hoc nature, but it is a great idea. thanks for that.

I have far more garbage about money (like only selfish people have it or it makes you selfish) than sex. Thus, I have little money. I’m trying desperately to change that and it feels good to know I’m not alone.