Friday, December 14, 2012

Why money is so important in this world? Isn't money THE key to life (however preposterous this sounds)?

Why money is so important in this world? Isn't money THE key to life (however preposterous this sounds)?
Almost everyone on this planet is compelled to use money. We have no choice. I think there are only a few communities in this world (maybe a few tribes in Africa, or some people in the Brazilian jungle) who don't rely on money to survive in the world. Everyone else HAS to use money whether you like it or not. So isn't this pathetic that something as trivial as the ink constituting characters and numbers printed on a piece of paper can have such an impact on our life? If you are ill and have money, you get the treatment you need. If you don't have it, and you can't earn it, and you have no one to borrow it from, or if you can't devise a method quickly whereby money starts falling from the sky...then that's it. You're dead. Literally. The same goes with food. You can't walk into a Walmart store and tell someone at the till "I need to take some bread, milk and honey home, but I can't give you any money for this". People would look at you with incredulity. So again: no money = no food. No food = starvation. And so you die. And we can go on and on citing examples at how important money really is to sustain human life on this planet. But why is it like that? Why does money make the world go round? And why does God (if there is one) give money to some people, and withhold it from the others? Like this man who was convicted for raping a woman in England. Once he was let out of jail (temporarily), he bough himself a lottery ticket, and won millions. Whereas many homeless, starving, desperate people in London, New York, Buenos Aires or Calcutta are scanning the pavements as we speak looking for any coins, which passers-by might have lost by accident, in order to buy some food. What the hell is going on !!!?? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3554008.stm
Philosophy - 3 Answers
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1 :
only because it's easier to use a representation of value instead of trading chickens and cows...
2 :
Because without money... You either wind up homeless, in prison, or dead...
3 :
The key to your question and statement is "this world". In that you are absolutely right about money. Money makes the world of today go around. Sad but true. It has replaced self-sufficiency because it offers a better guarantee than the vagaries of nature. Everyone is entitled to enjoy the benefits of the luck of the draw. Remember the movie about the slum kids in Bombay that won the lottery. In many ways, it was mirrored in life because the actual slum kids that played the parts are now set for life. Luck is nothing more than an intersection of opportunity and preparedness.



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