Do what you love and the money
Do what you love and the moneyDo what you love and the money will follow
In this essay I will examine the meaning behind Jacob Needleman's statement "There is this idea: 'Do what you love and the money will follow'. I think that this is one of the New age Fantasies". First explaining this quotation, I will then look at some of the questions that this statement raises, using similar views from an anthropology background and scholars such as Karl Marx to investigate the authors ideas of self knowledge and the role of money in western culture that are in the related article.
Through this article the author is trying to express the inherent fallacies that are present in such a statement as "Do what you love and the money will follow". This statement originally quoted by Marsha Sinetar, in her 1989 book Discovering Your Right Livelihood. Needlemam counteracts this with his theory on the role that money has and contributes in western culture, he shows that money is the driving force behind everything, and that such a statement is nothing more than just a fantasy and not realistic, money comes before all else. He contends that everything that man does or accomplishes is, or for, the pursuit of money or exchange, and through this, society as a whole lives through this energy that is created.
Since, as the author contends, that money is the "Chief representative of 'life on earth' " than money is what drives us, we chase it, money, in the author's eyes does not follow us. Therefore the statement " do what you love and the money will follow" is contrary to Needleman's beliefs and in a sense would seem like a new age fantasy. Human life to him is money, to be human in this day and age is to require money and our own conciseness needs to accept this fact. To understand you're individual life, you must accept that money is the most important piece in our culture at this time in human evolution you must accept it and adapt to it in order to survive. To believe that you can do what you like and the money follow is incomprehensible.
In addition to Neeldeman's theory if you look at a similar hypothesis taken by anthropologist Meridith Small which serves to better illustrate the point of money being...
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