How Does Lack of Money Affect a Person’s Life? Lack of Self-Intimacy and Self-Exploration – Lack of Self-Worth and Self Acceptance The way the world is currently set up is based on and around money. If you have it, you can live a comfortable life – if you don’t have it, life is spent desperately attempting to make it through to see another day. But the common point found within both categories is that people’s lives all over the earth is consumed by the pursuit of money. The majority of the average person’s life in this world is centered around working and discovering ways to earn money simply to survive. Half of the human population is living in poverty. Millions on this earth are forced to work full time (at least 38 hours per week) just to have enough money to live. For most, this means that life is so much revolved around money that they do not even have the chance to look deeper into themselves and life in general. Life is so centered around money and survival that there is little time to think of anything else, as this is the very function of the system to keep people busy with serving it and thus putting both it and themselves as a product of the system first. Money is so conditioned into humanity’s psyche that it is seen as the most valuable thing existent in this world, which causes many to obsess over meaningless, superficial commodities, such as having a nice car and house, which causes one to live a very shallow existence, missing the point of life and …