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To: Father Terrence who wrote (17897)	6/22/1998 9:56:00 AM
From: mark silvers	Read Replies (1) of 39621

FT Money does not represent morality, nor can it be either moral or immoral. Wealth is very rarely created by trade that is done by free men and women giving value for value. Wealth is oftentimes created by using leverage to take great value for much lesser value. The "traders philosophy" that you mention, usually leads to great and systemic abuses unless checked by at least some degree of regulation.(note that I did not say "big government") The picture painted of men and women happily giving each other fair value without the hindrance of any system is a very skewed one, IMO. I certainly have no problem with people wanting and desiring cash. Our system and culture make it vey hard for the average person to not want those things. I guess my problem stems more from the notion that cash and/or the pursuit of it is inherently good or bad. To me, they are neither, it is the the actions that are undertaken that make the pursuit or accumulation of it good or bad. JMHO. Mark Sorry for any wrong assumptions that I made about you

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