Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Money stands in for everything you might enjoy, which makes it easy to want when nothing in particular appeals any more. Chasing it feels like chasing all pleasures at once, and it never disappoints the way a specific pleasure can. That is what makes it such a good hiding place. When the real enjoyments go quiet, the abstract one quietly becomes the whole appetite.

Ask what you would spend it on if you stopped accumulating it. A thin answer is worth paying attention to, and the repair is not more income. Choose one concrete pleasure this week and give it actual time.