Biskop over Roskilde Stift Jan Lindhardt skrev i Berlingske Tidende den 25. juli at Griskhed en last bliver til en dyd. De fleste husker vel Michael Douglas' - i det store hele glimrende - tale i filmen Wall Street, hvor han i rollen som Gordon Gekko siger, at "greed is good - greed works". Og til dette kan man kun svare - Ja, Fri os fra forsagelse! (Kvalificering af synspunktet findes i posteringens sidste henvisning - meget passende i Capitalism Magazine.)

I anledningen skal også nævnes den norske hjemmeside DYRK MAMMON.NO.

COIN har bragt to artikler fra DYRK MAMMON-folkene: Disse er fra Onar Åm, der har skrevet artiklen The Corporation samt Per-Anton Rønning, der introducerer til hjemmesiden med kommentaren Pengeglæde . Her skriver PAR blandt andet følgende:

Pengegleden er tofold: Den er den intense gleden over å ha lykkes intellektuelt og organisatorisk, slik at det skapes overskudd. Dernest har vi gleden over å kunne nyte et godt og komfortabelt liv med velstands- og luksusgoder. Disse har enorm symbolkraft, for de skriker ut noe som de åndfulle hater å høre: Jeg har LYKKES - jeg har et verdiskapende intellekt! De åndfulle ønsker å ha monopol på det intellektuelle, det er dette de føler er det mest beundringsverdige ved deres livsform. De gjør derfor det, de kan for å fremstille verdiskaperne som overfladiske og ute av stand til å bevege seg innenfor den fornemme åndelige sfære.

Ovenstående hyldest til pengeøkonomi, profit og egeninteresse (samt afstandtagen fra afsavn, forsagelse, offervilje og hykleri) skal dog blot tjene som introduktion til Francisco d'Anconias pengetale. Her bringes et introducerende citat:

D'Anconia: Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money? - Læs resten af talen her.

You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it's crumbling around you, while you're damning its life-blood--money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men's history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves--slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody's mind and left unimproved for centuries. So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer, Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers--as industrialists... Læs mere her.