I regulary discard the money section from the age as soon as i open the paper, yesterday I didn't and so I found this in the profile of Thomas Keneally
Attitude to money
Attitude to money
"When I was a child money was an iron certitude. The gas bill came in and it had to be paid from wages. When you get to know the world and realise money is an invention, it's a great shock. Money is not an immutable thing, it's a human fiction."
Thomas Keneally.