Victor Pelevin. Secret views of mount Fuji (№ 354694)

Money is a drug, which today are from infancy put all. Ninety-nine percent, as you probably noticed, are in withdrawal. One percent seems to be rushing, but...
No one drug does not bring sustainable joy. He gives only what is called the English word "high". Temporary, precarious and unsustainable euphoria, mixed with a growing fear that the euphoria of losing. You need to constantly increase the dose, etc., etc. So the business at all times kidding different Thick ("how many a man of earth need"), and to argue them on the merits difficult.