Victor Pelevin. Empire V (№ 50999)

If, as you say, the problem of money - to make life easier, why do people release their whole life until they become senile in the trash? Do you seriously think that person is doing it all for themselves? I beg of you. People do not even know what money really is.
At the same time, he continued, is to understand that it is a snap. It is enough to ask the basic question - what do they produce? In a nutshell, it is difficult to formulate, ' I said. - At this point still arguing economists...
And let the debate continue. But for any career employee is unique. The money extracted from him time and effort. They transformed his life energy that it gets from air, sunlight, food, and other impressions of life. You mean, in a figurative sense? In the truest. People think that producing money for themselves. But in fact, it produces them out of itself. The life is arranged so that it can get a little money for personal use only in the case that will produce much more for someone else. And all he produces for himself, tends strangely to seep between his fingers...