What does “money should be perceived as means, not an end” even mean? Well, essentially it means that, as we’ve heard numerous times, “You can't eat money”. In our current day and age, it seems that many people are obsessed with getting money for its own sake, but money isn't useful for its own worth, but instead it's useful for what it can do and buy. This phrase “money should be perceived as a means, not an end” can be tied into concepts seen in the two texts.