TinyBubbles
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Most people spend a large amount of their lives working, to accumulate what can often be regarded as more money than they need, to survive. Why is this? Money is certainly important - without it your options are limited, your chances of doing things you enjoy greatly reduced, your stability threatened. However, I think money is less important than economic balance - without a steady influx of goods and services near a location where you can purpose them (and from a party who is willing to sell them to you!) money is pretty worthless. You could have a million dollars and it would mean nothing if you were starving and no food was around; all the farmers were on strike, or had been bought out by a third party, or something like that. On the flip side having too much produce and no one willing to buy it would mean it would go to waste - and money again would be meaningless. All that labor would go to waste.
Ok, aside from that, let's think about the general meaning of money in terms of emotional fulfillment. Does money = happiness, in your opinion? I think a lack of money will certainly make you unhappy, for the reasons stated above, but I also think excessive amounts of money won't necessary bring you more and more happiness. There would be a limit somewhere.
I remember talking to the boss of a successful company once, he was saying how he had more money than he knew what to do with; he traveled first class and bought expensive clothes, and ate at the best restaurants and stayed at the best hotels. But, he mentioned with a kind of sage look in his eyes, although maybe that was just what I interpreted as - an astute businessman such as he might have been playing on what I wanted to hear, rather than what he actually thought - that there was only so much food a man could eat in a single day, only so much enjoyment he could by. He seemed to imply that there was more to life than accumulating wealth, although he seemed to have no desire to stop doing it!
Maybe it's true though, that money can only give us part of what we need to be fulfilled - maybe there is something more at stake here. What's your opinion? What's the actual value of wealth, as opposed to the general social consensus?
Ok, aside from that, let's think about the general meaning of money in terms of emotional fulfillment. Does money = happiness, in your opinion? I think a lack of money will certainly make you unhappy, for the reasons stated above, but I also think excessive amounts of money won't necessary bring you more and more happiness. There would be a limit somewhere.
I remember talking to the boss of a successful company once, he was saying how he had more money than he knew what to do with; he traveled first class and bought expensive clothes, and ate at the best restaurants and stayed at the best hotels. But, he mentioned with a kind of sage look in his eyes, although maybe that was just what I interpreted as - an astute businessman such as he might have been playing on what I wanted to hear, rather than what he actually thought - that there was only so much food a man could eat in a single day, only so much enjoyment he could by. He seemed to imply that there was more to life than accumulating wealth, although he seemed to have no desire to stop doing it!
Maybe it's true though, that money can only give us part of what we need to be fulfilled - maybe there is something more at stake here. What's your opinion? What's the actual value of wealth, as opposed to the general social consensus?