{"id":43005,"date":"2022-12-15T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=43005"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:42:55","slug":"from-a-debt-to-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/from-a-debt-to-a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Debt to a Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"What is money? Do we need money? If we fetch water from the spring and go into the forest and gather food, then we don't need money. When we follow our individual impulses to fashion things in an entrepreneurial, creative way as human beings, then something like money becomes relevant. Money in that sense is the \u00abspiritual element of the economy\u00bb \u2013 that is what Rudolf Steiner calls it \u2013 and I wanted to understand that.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf money is the spiritual element of the economy, how is it at work, then, when over ninety percent of the money is based on debt, and debt brings stress, anxiety, and fear? For me, it was logical that I could understand this better by going to a bank. So I became a sustainability officer at a private Swiss bank, which was a very interesting apprenticeship. I wa<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is money? Do we need money? If we fetch water from the spring and go into the forest and gather food, then we don&#8217;t need money. When we follow our individual impulses to fashion things in an entrepreneurial, creative way as human beings, then something like money becomes relevant. Money in that sense is the \u00abspiritual element of the economy\u00bb \u2013 that is what Rudolf Steiner calls it \u2013 and I wanted to understand that. If money is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18208,"featured_media":42630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8808,8793],"tags":[11268,8798],"class_list":["post-43005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-philosophy","tag-2022-46-en","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}