Paper and Money
There are many things valuable in this world. You cannot fully count them with both hands or recite them all in one speech. In our world today what could be the most valuable thing? AccessIf you would ask people you would get different answers - vague answers such as fortune, fame, love, virtue and kindness and even material things. I once asked a friend and she answered money because as I quote, "With money, you have the power to do anything." But looking at it closely, what is money by the way but a piece of either invaluable metal or paper with faces of dead people and printed numbers. What is money but paper?
The capitalist system has heavily worked on money as their primary means of exchange ever since they abolished the gold standard and replaced it with the dollar standard. And that same system has pushed the current world's population into thinking that mere paper has indefinite value in itself. If you give a monkey a coin or cash, it might just eat it and figuring out that it's naturally uneatable, will throw it at you. If you go back in time to the primitive time when paper still doesn't exist, bringing cash would really bring you no benefit. If I were a bank robber I wouldn't steal that bank's cash but I'd make sure I get to steal from their gold reserves. Just a bar of gold cost more than a bag full of money and anywhere you go, when you present aICDL-PowerP person with gold primitive or modern, he or she would surely comply. Even certain animals seem to value gold, silver and diamonds but what is paper to them but trash?
There hasn't been a person I know, me included, whose life isn't dictated by money. Maybe that's why it is seen as the most valuable good and highly treasured by a lot of people of different races. Looking at the way the world works today it is fallacy to say that one can live a decent life without having any money. It is even a bigger fallacy to say that one can live at all without any money. Today, everything is about money. The once free things that people naturally enjoy are now for sale. The basic needs of man such as food, water, clothing and shelter are withheld from public use and are distributed by means of trade. Anyone who has seen the movie 2012 could relate to the scene where tickets to a place on the ship and to survival itself are priced and sold only to those who have the money to afford it. But if the world gets flooded and everything disappears, is money still valuable. When everything is lost, will people finally realize that one cannot eat paper
Money has given us a lot of good things ICDL-Netin life but it has also become a reason for petty crimes such as hold-ups and robbery even murder. If we let money, which is only paper, dictate our whole lives we become greedy enough to no longer care whom we hurt, steal or deprive rights from and we loose our humanity, to what - to paper. How funny the world has become, don't you think? We need money, yes. But to live for money alone, do you still count yourself as human then?
The capitalist system has heavily worked on money as their primary means of exchange ever since they abolished the gold standard and replaced it with the dollar standard. And that same system has pushed the current world's population into thinking that mere paper has indefinite value in itself. If you give a monkey a coin or cash, it might just eat it and figuring out that it's naturally uneatable, will throw it at you. If you go back in time to the primitive time when paper still doesn't exist, bringing cash would really bring you no benefit. If I were a bank robber I wouldn't steal that bank's cash but I'd make sure I get to steal from their gold reserves. Just a bar of gold cost more than a bag full of money and anywhere you go, when you present aICDL-PowerP person with gold primitive or modern, he or she would surely comply. Even certain animals seem to value gold, silver and diamonds but what is paper to them but trash?
There hasn't been a person I know, me included, whose life isn't dictated by money. Maybe that's why it is seen as the most valuable good and highly treasured by a lot of people of different races. Looking at the way the world works today it is fallacy to say that one can live a decent life without having any money. It is even a bigger fallacy to say that one can live at all without any money. Today, everything is about money. The once free things that people naturally enjoy are now for sale. The basic needs of man such as food, water, clothing and shelter are withheld from public use and are distributed by means of trade. Anyone who has seen the movie 2012 could relate to the scene where tickets to a place on the ship and to survival itself are priced and sold only to those who have the money to afford it. But if the world gets flooded and everything disappears, is money still valuable. When everything is lost, will people finally realize that one cannot eat paper
Money has given us a lot of good things ICDL-Netin life but it has also become a reason for petty crimes such as hold-ups and robbery even murder. If we let money, which is only paper, dictate our whole lives we become greedy enough to no longer care whom we hurt, steal or deprive rights from and we loose our humanity, to what - to paper. How funny the world has become, don't you think? We need money, yes. But to live for money alone, do you still count yourself as human then?
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