Ritesh,

For one thing, we have an ideals based culture, where we aspire to some higher state, yet reality is bottom up. The absolute would be the essence from which we rise, not an ideal from which we fell. So even when that moral and ethical idealization eventually fails, because good and bad are simply the biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, not a cosmic dual between the forces of righteousness and evil, we transfer our idealization to other preferences, like fame, fortune, happiness, etc. Nature is simply cyclical and reciprocal. Without the ups and downs, it’s a flatline.

As for money, it functions as a contract, but we treat it as a commodity. Here is an essay I wrote on the problems of that;

https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/the-worm-in-the-apple-of-modern-capitalism-a46081000d5a?source=friends_link&sk=3715800efb829b19940b70366a33570f