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Love of money, to be specific. Asceticism is a thing.

• lo_zamoyski 4y ago
  You don't need to be an ascetic. You just need not identify with or get attached to your money as if it were an end in itself or some talisman. Recall the biblical verses about it being easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven. Those passages aren't about being rich per se. Indeed, that same criticism is directed at the others listening who aren't rich. It is a spiritual condition that can afflict the poor as much as the rich.