There are places in society where money has no currency, or to attempt to use money is acknowledged to be wrong.

One example of this is Sex. While a woman's body is her own to do with as she chooses, we have any number of pejorative terms  to describe any woman who exploits this for money (and most civilized people will have a similar prejudices against the men purchasing affections.). A slightly less obvious example of this is the Trophy wife, wherein the woman is disproportionately younger or more beautiful than her partner - an alliance of comfort or convenience, and while outwardly we tolerate it privately we observe and condemn it.

Religion and spirituality is an arena where most people realize that money has no influence. Disregarding the obvious hypocrisies of the Christian and Catholic traditions, most of it's most venerated leaders and saints have been poor, and no one of any credibility or sense would equate wealth with enlightenment. 

Politics and Justice. This will be less obvious because both Canada and the US have entrenched systems of bribery, but in the purest, most abstract sense ideal government should reflect the will of the people and be uninfluenced both by individuals and companies with vested interests. Governance is both for and by the people. Allowing lobby groups and corporate interests to "donate", "fund" or otherwise "support" political parties that will further their interests is Bribery by another name, and obfuscates the value and purpose of politics. Voting and Politics are currently done on a "Per Dollar" basis, where every unit of currency has measurable influence, whereas Democracy was founded upon the principles that every individual had a measurable level of influence. While most parties currently rely on funding from the private sector to further their agenda, to have a true democracy we would need to remove this funding and create a system whereby the people allot a discreet ration of government funding to each party, providing a level playing field. Comparatively it would cost us very little and provide enormous benefits, however stopping the corporate juggernauts is not so easy.

In Justice, the corrupting influence of money is entrenched and transparent. We hear reference to the cost of lawyers, generally prohibitive, the implication that the more one spends on one's mouthpiece the "better" or "more favorable" the quality of justice one can expect. While on the one hand this is clearly true we should remove the word Justice from it, you might be buying laws or outcomes (the same laws that corporations have had created and revised ad-nauseum to protect their interests), but you are not buying Justice. The topic of corporations is the subject of a different post.

 

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