Having too much money isn’t important. Breaking your neck is important. Getting cancer is important. Having nothing to eat is important. Losing someone you love is important. But too much money is absolutely not important, it’s just a part of the game. As H. L. Mencken put it: ‘The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.’ That’s a fair summary. If we lived in a world where seaweed was overestimated, I would collect tons and tons of it. And I would enjoy doing it. But I wouldn’t kid myself it was all that important. It’s just seaweed.
