Keynes’s in his 1930 essay ‘The Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren’: “The love of money as a possession – as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life – will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.”
“… a somewhat disgusting morbidity…”. Brilliant phrase in that context.
“… a somewhat disgusting morbidity…”. Brilliant phrase in that context.