Just for the heck of it, I typed in money on a google search. Seemed simple enough. After ignoring Google's obvious favoritism towards certain companies for search results, I found the US Government's Official Money Page. Great! I'm in the US. They're at the top of the food chain, theoretically. Let's see what they have to tell me, Joe Citizen, about Money. Well, Joe Citizen got the same kind of advice Joe Citizen probably got in the mid 1950s. The Govt idea of money starts with Earn. There's many ways to Earn money. But what it its assumption? Job. A standard job. They call it "work", which I thought is the amount of effort it takes to push a box up a hill. It doesn't even say anything about acquiring this magical thing called "work". First line about earning is: "The Earn principle is about more than the amount you are paid through work." So I'm paid money through work. Ok. I push a box up a hill and somehow I get money for it? I'm reminded of [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus Sisyphus, who is doomed to push a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, over and over and over again. http://www.mymoney.gov/earn/Pages/earn.aspx References Visible links 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus