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Money plays the part in modern life that food used to play on the plains of Africa. You need it to survive and in the past food could not be kept for long. You had to continually be on the lookout for more, it was fundamental to survival.

It was easy enough for people to substitute money for food as the critical thing we need to survive. It's not as easy to give up the instinct of getting more of it everyday.

And why should it be easy? This behaviour meant life or death for millions of generations.




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