He didn’t believe in the magic money god:

We are now taught to believe that legerdemain tricks upon paper can produce as solid wealth as hard labor in the earth. It is vain for common sense to urge that nothing can produce but nothing; that it is an idle dream to believe in a philosopher’s stone which is to turn everything into gold, and to redeem man from the original sentence of his Maker, “in the sweat of his brow shall he eat his bread.” –Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816.

So strange that such an unbeliever is a “Founding Father” to children who have demanded adoption into the family the American pantheon of Bank, and Low Interest, and High Return.