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Ascetics who wish to escape material considerations also prefer solitary activities and less physical intimacy. Maybe a lot of that time spent sitting in a cave thinking about God is really spent thinking about how they're not thinking about money.

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Stupid money. No matter how much more of it we seem to get, we could always use more. Stupid Hanson, reminding us of Stupid money... *grumbles in a corner by herself pensively, and actually starts studying*

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Is this perhaps behind the origin of the rule that in polite society one never mentions money at social functions?

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Perhaps by reminding people of money, this post got them to work harder and not socialize via commenting on blog posts? :)

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