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Can money buy happiness?
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Can money buy
happiness? It is a question that I have run in to numerous times and
the people I hear talking about it both rich and poor seem to have come
to the general consensus of boldly stating that “money can not buy
happiness”. They go on to say things like friends, Family and a whole
lot of lifes experiences are worth far more than money. Taking a walk
in the park is true happiness. Hearing the birds sing is what makes me
happy. Those are the kind of cliché sentences everybody seems to
subscribe to. And as with most clichés the people that reach for them
never really gave it much thought and don't actually have a personal
understanding of what they are talking about.
The question is
“Can money buy happiness? “ as in does money have the potential to buy
happiness and the answer is “yes”! If the question was do people know
what makes them happy and would they exchange their money for it I
would say no. But that is not the question.
Friends, family,
nature, pleasant experiences, a walk in the park are al things worth
more than money. I agree with that. But the people that believe in all
these things and continuously mention that al these things are worth
more than any money are also the people that spend long hours working
exchanging their time for money instead of exchanging their money for
time to do al the things that they quote are worth more than any money.
They are really contradicting what they are preaching.
If you
were to win the lottery you could buy happiness with your winnings. I
say that and I know that what I say is true. You can exchange the money
of your winnings for time to do the things that are worth more than
money and that is how you exchange money for Happiness. It is really
that simple.
This does not mean that there is no evil side to
money which I'll get in to later. The only people that cannot buy
happiness with money are the ones that exchange the money for things
that they do not enjoy, or people that exchange an excessive amount of
time for money. Those are usually but not always also the idiots that
preach how money cannot buy happiness, and they turn their own opinion
in to a reality. by in a way doing the exact opposite of what they say.
these are often the kind people that say if I won the lottery I
would not give up my $7 an hour job. Followed by the sentence. “Money
can't buy happiness”. Which is then followed by al the clichés
mentioned in the beginning of the article. Of course you cant buy
happiness if you spend the winnings of your lottery on a million dollar
house and continue to work overtime on that $7 an hour job. You wont
spend much time in your fancy house since you'll be working al the time
and you still don't have sufficient time for your family. This is just
one of the hundreds of ways these preaching people stuff up.
This
is how it should have bean done buy a modest house with your lottery
winnings quit the $7 an hour job invest the remainder of your money
intelligently and use the time you have gained to do the things that
are wort more than money. The things that some people say “money cannot
buy”, even dough it just did. Spend that time with your family, your
friends, listen to the birds and walk in the park if you like take your
family with you. Get a hobby build that model train that you always
dreamed about as a child.
Money just serves the purpose of a
currency if you have a certain amount of Money it means that somebody
owes you a certain quantity of goods or services. Money by itself is
not evil but the way money is managed and distributed in a capitalistic
system is evil.
The simplest way to explain it is that time
equal money. If the world where fair everybody's time would have the
same value. When we do work our time is sacrificed in order to produce
an effort. That effort will get a certain amount of work done, for that
work we get credit in the form of money. We can then exchange that
money giving the credit to someone else. In exchange for that credit
that someone has to exchange hes time and put in an effort to do an
equal amount of work for you. In a capitalistic system some peoples
time is worth much more than that of others, and this is the very
backbone of its evil. It is something you can witness every day when
one person has to work an entire day, and spend the entire days wages
to pay for someone else's service for just one hour . For instance one
might have to work two days in a factory to buy the service of a lawyer
for one hour. One could say that some peoples lifes are worth more than
the lifes of another. That is the very foundation of capitalistic
thinking. Our lifes are made up of time and time is valued by money.
The amount of money you get for your time is how much your time is
considered to be worth. In Capitalism the time of some people is worth
a lot more than that of others. A system that considers some people
more worthy than others by increasing the value of ones time and in
exchange decreasing value of another's time is a system that is unjust
and evil. It is a system that allows one to say my life is worth more
than yours and it is your job to serve me.
The reason I went on
to mention these things is because when you are deprived of money even
when you have put in the effort it can bring you great misery and
hardship it can deprive you of your time, your family, your friends,
and just about everything that is your life. This can cause one to hate
money and with good reason. But it is Capitalism that you must hate not
money. Money is only a currency. If money did not exist. Capitalism
would simply just require you to do long hours of labour in exchange
for very little labour by somebodies else in return a much simpler name
for it is Slavery.
The moral of this Article is. Don't quote
clichés. Know what brings you happiness exchange your money for the
time to do these things. I know you're probably financially struggling
just to survive while some capitalistic enterprise is making it big of
your effort and the efforts of thousands of others just like you. So
why don't you go out and rip of some capitalists head and spit or shit
down hes throat.
Capitalists you will fall. Korpfnagel hates you.
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