Somerset Maugham has a nice quote in Of Human Bondage: "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." Although he

Somerset Maugham has a nice quote in Of Human Bondage: "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." Although he does have a point I don't quite agree with that POV. What I think money should be viewed as (we're talking about a good amount of money here, let's say 2-3x your living expenses) a super power. Like all super powers it can be used for good or evil (or, more probably, wasted). You can do a lot of good with a relatively small amount of money. You really cannot do this or think about such things if you don't know where your next lunch is coming from or if you will be able to afford to send your kids to college.