The pastor at the church we used to attend in Blue Point once said in a sermon that "life is flow, not accumulation." This made an impression on me because whether you're talking about rivers, our circulatory system or the economy, accumulation impedes the life force.

So Matt, in his separate points, sort of summarizes the dichotomy of the human condition. He talks about how cool the Moneyless Man's gig is, but then also references the high price of gold--the ultimate substance of the hoarder (picture Pharoahs literally buried in it). Hard too, not to point out the biblical injunction against hoarding (building another barn to store the wheat; then dying, of course) which seems to have influenced just about nobody.

Perhaps someday there will be a legitimization of self-reliance, etc. via higher education, but for now the conspiracy (read big bad business) to consume, consume, consume reigns over the earth.