Your authors have noticed a popular presumption hanging about, that being able to pay for whatever you need, so that you don’t have to rely on anybody else, is a Most Desirable State Of Affairs. But as with so many things, the dose makes the poison: a measure of financial independence is convenient, but make money the dominant mode by which you satisfy needs and wants, and you start missing out on a whole lotta living. You can also become quite a lonely grouch.
