29 May 2025 2 min read Bookturbo

This is Why True Wealth Has No Beginning and No End 🟢

VIDEO WE LOVE | Deep down we all know this: holding on too tightly impoverishes everyone. Yet...

Portrait of Angaangaq, a Greenland elder

This post is part of the Bookturbo collection—videos, films and books that would inspire the writing of the book Money is Never About Money.

Do we lose out when we share what we have in abundance? The answer’s pretty obvious, yet, when it comes to things, money, knowledge and even love, holding on still governs the ‘normal’.

Why?

Because at some point, someone somewhere started believing there’s not enough. This belief latched on to more and more people, until ‘more for you’ became 'less for me’, and ‘better hold on just in case’.

This mostly unconscious mindset—one I’ve fallen into many times, and still do sometimes—can shape how we ‘give’, even when it comes to love.

Angaangaq, a tribal elder from Greenland, aptly describes this tragic, self-fulfilling madness—and what happens when we don’t buy into it.

This was his answer when employees of the Dutch Ethical Triodos Bank asked him, ‘How do you become truly wealthy?’

Angaangaq’s answer became part of chapter two of the book Money is Never About Money, ‘This is Not an Economics Class’, which talks about what money really is, the dynamics of a system that doesn’t know when more is enough, and the underlying cause of that system—a cause that, if we dare to look honestly—lives not out there, but within us.

» You can find more about the book, freely read the fully illustrated version, access the audiobook chapters and find the Dutch-language book here.

» For the core premise and conclusions of the no-economics-class chapter, check this post on this platform.

» For the Dutch-language version of this post, go here.

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