Commerce is dirty and money is bad. An often-heard comment by artists talking to me; a creative working part-time in advertising. I understand where they’re coming from, but I doubt it. The exchange of money can also be seen as the exchange of energy. If it’s exchanged in a good way, it’s not bad.
Recently, Neale Donald Walsh, American author of the Conversations with God series, wrote about this subject:
“As part of our Old Cultural Story many humans have been told that money is the root of all evil. Money is bad and God is good, and so money and good do not mix. One result of this teaching: The higher one’s purpose in life, and the greater one’s value to society, the lower one’s income must be. Hence nurses, teachers, public-safety officials, and those in similar service professions are not to ask to earn much money. Ministers, rabbis, priests and other clergy are to ask even less. Homemakers and mothers, under this guideline, should have no personal income at all, for they may be the most selfless in service to others. Because money is bad, intrinsically evil, pay must be in reverse proportion to the value of the function performed. The better the deed, the worse the pay.” Of course, we can fill ‘artists’ in between the lines ourselves.
