"Five purposes of money:
1. Subsistence: to feed and shelter ourselves
2. Security: a means to manage your future, to make the world less unpredictable
3. Luxury: if something is a luxury, then you’re not dependent upon it
4. Status: games by which people establish, hold onto, and change status
5. Accumulation: the idea that more is in and of itself better"
Dougald Hine
(Source: bonnie.foleywong.com)