Money Makes The World Go Round (Money)

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Product:	Money
Date:	13.10.01 (432 review reads)
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Advantages: A good way of trading

Disadvantages: Very complicated at times, Promotes crime in some ways, If one person gets enough of it, they can change the world. Imagine if Bill Gates decided to buy the Taliban nuclear weapons......

We all know what money is, its the notes you have in your wallet, the coins you throw in the gutter, the thing you get held at knifepoint for while in your cab (Ken will back me up on this one). Money is becoming the be all and end all but whats it all about?

When time began, well maybe not that early as there were dinosaurs, but when civilised society began, so did trading, and with trading came problems. A man who had a sack of spuds wanted to buy some sweetcorn, but he also wanted some Swede and a Pepper. Now the guy who sold the pepper was willing to give one pepper for 3 potatoes and the guy with the sweetcorn was offering 3 sweetcorns for a pepper. The guy with the potatoes then found that by swapping the three potatoes for the pepper he could then get 3 sweetcorns for the pepper instead of providing 5 potatoes. In the end it all just got too confusing, so a great brain decided to introduce a currency, an early version of money as it were. With this currency you could buy and sell and see exactly what the prices were without having to swap your goods all over the place. They were effectively an I.O.U.

Infact, if you look at a common five pound note today you will see that underneath the written words 'Bank Of England' is the quote
'I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of'. Simple, money is an I.O.U but more official.

Money can actually buy you anything it would seem. With your little I.O.U you can buy some popcorn to enjoy with the film you paid for with a few more I.O.U's. If you have enough of them you can even buy a great big house with 50 rooms in the middle of London (and change your name to Bill Gates).

For most of us though, money is simply a meanings of living. We struggle day to day in our boring jobs in order to get someone else money so that they give us some of it back (naturally they keep most of it) and then we try to buy our food and pay our rent (and the astronomic
al internet bill ;-)). It's something that we come to depand on day in day out and without it we would starve and possibly even be on the street begging. Even when we beg we beg for money, not for food or drink but money. It's what makes the world go round. Its the core of western society.

Its also the reason for many of our problems. Money is essential for everything we do, and if we dont have it we need to get it. Without money you cannot live, its that simple. Whether you work for your money or you steal it you need more of it. And even when you do have it you want more of it.

If you have a thousand pounds, you can buy a TV, but once you have the TV you want a Video Recorder and thats another one hundred pounds, if you buy that then you want videos to go with it and so it spirals out of control into a neverending desire to have more.

I guess its human nature to grab what you can when you can and always want more, that way if times become harder you have a greater chance of survival (much in the same way a hampster stores food in its pouches in case there isnt any at a later date). Either way you will find there are people trying to get more money at every level of the money scale.

A family struggling to live will try their best to get money, either by working for a small wage or by stealing, but do you see Bill Gates sitting back on his billions and saying 'enoughs enough, I have enough money and I want out'? No, he keeps going and going, fighting every court battle and scrounging every penny to add to his rather large collection. In fact if he gave every American citizen £100 he'd still have enough to buy a mansion here in the Uk and live the rest of his life in comfort.

Is this really necessary? At such pinacles of nature is it right for one man to keep earning more and more money? Should it be made illegal for one man to horde that cash and prevent the rest of the world from ea
ting? His fortune could wipe out a third of world debt and if he donated all future earnings aswell he'd have cleared it all in an estimated 35 years. Instead he just gets richer and richer.

On the other side of the coin, any money he hordes isnt available to the rest of us, so in comparison we all become poorer and poorer.

Personally I think this is simply wrong. With the power to make the rest of us poor and the power to wipe out 3rd world debt, one man has made himself almost a god. He could change the entire methods of society if he wanted to, alter stock markets by mass buying shares and he could even lead himself into world domination if he had the right contacts. It's scary to think such a thing could happen when one man finds a way to earn a large enough amount of the thing we call money.

Something that started so innocent and simple now promotes greed and evil, robbers who enter banks and willingly shoot people to get money, people who mug old ladies in the street, leaving them to die while they run away with a few pounds in their pockets. Money is the root of all evil and the only way to obtain pleasure. Without enough money to live, nobody can be happy, and when we do have the money to live we only want more. Its a vicious cycle of life that we cant get out of and it all revolves around money, pounds sterling or dollars, groats or Drachma. Whatever you are spending, its all just dirty money.

On the question of money buying you happiness... I dont think it can. Without any you will undoubtedly be unhappy, homeless and without any food or shelter, but having it doesnt mean you'll be any happier. Life is what you make of it, providing you make enough money to live then you can be as happy as you want to be. In the words of the oh so famed song,

'ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE...'

:)

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