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Topic: Why is it the more people want to become rich
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Fri 10/31/14 10:14 PM
Edited by robinbad on Fri 10/31/14 10:20 PM
The more people become poor. The majority of people just live and work in order to meet the ends, no matter where they live - in americas, europe, asia, or africa. The only difference is money - in th US it is dollar, in Mexico it is peso etc.

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Fri 10/31/14 11:52 PM
Because people has no satisfaction in life...

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Sat 11/01/14 08:18 AM

The more people become poor. The majority of people just live and work in order to meet the ends, no matter where they live - in americas, europe, asia, or africa. The only difference is money - in th US it is dollar, in Mexico it is peso etc.


I think its karma,, the more a culture values their money before their people,, they will always have too many people and not enough money,,,



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Sat 11/01/14 08:21 AM
The root of all evil, but ask anyone to give it away

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Sat 11/01/14 08:30 AM
Edited by msharmony on Sat 11/01/14 08:31 AM
money is a necessity that is not evil

the worship of money is the evil

I wont 'give' away money I need to provide and live,, but I regularly 'give' the money I might have used for non necessities like entertainment or treats or other such things, to homeless and needy,,


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Sat 11/01/14 08:35 AM
http://www.dailypaul.com/133313/francisco-d-anconias-ayn-rands-money-speech-in-atlas-shrugged

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Sat 11/01/14 12:20 PM

money is a necessity that is not evil

the worship of money is the evil

I wont 'give' away money I need to provide and live,, but I regularly 'give' the money I might have used for non necessities like entertainment or treats or other such things, to homeless and needy,,




agree

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Sat 11/01/14 05:04 PM
"Why is it the more people want to become rich"

In the USA, plenty of people have enough money to live on, but they are jealous of others who have more money than them.

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Sat 11/01/14 05:22 PM
Because the top 1 percent won't give up their money.

metalwing's photo
Sat 11/01/14 05:28 PM
The more money you have the more toys you can buy!!!:banana:

Angeltripping17's photo
Sat 11/01/14 05:46 PM

advertising = brainwashing

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Sat 11/01/14 07:35 PM


advertising = brainwashing


Ah yes, the brainwashed consumer society. No production, just consuming, where everything is designed for obsolesce even faster than one can get tired of it.

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Sat 11/01/14 09:37 PM

money is a necessity that is not evil

the worship of money is the evil

I wont 'give' away money I need to provide and live,, but I regularly 'give' the money I might have used for non necessities like entertainment or treats or other such things, to homeless and needy,,


good point, power and the quest for it is the true root of evil.

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Sat 11/01/14 09:53 PM
I have no desire to be "rich"...I would however like to have enough money so it would be the last thing on my mind...

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Sun 11/02/14 06:49 AM
"To have more, desire less".

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Sun 11/02/14 12:56 PM

Because the top 1 percent won't give up their money.


Why should they give up their money?!?!?! They worked hard to earn it and\or keep it! What is wrong with society now days? They want everything given to them or handouts!!!!!!!

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Sun 11/02/14 01:02 PM
Edited by Conrad_73 on Sun 11/02/14 01:05 PM

http://www.dailypaul.com/133313/francisco-d-anconias-ayn-rands-money-speech-in-atlas-shrugged

(from above Link.)
So you think that money is the root of all evil? . . . Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?

Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made before it can be looted or mooched made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
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Most people lump together into the same category all men who become rich, refusing to consider the essential question: the source of the riches, the means by which the wealth was acquired.

Money is a tool of exchange; it represents wealth only so long as it can be traded for material goods and services. Wealth does not grow in nature; it has to be produced by men. Nature gives us only the raw materials, but it is man's mind that has to discover the knowledge of how to use them. It is mans thinking and labor that transform the materials into food, clothing, shelter or television sets into all the goods that men require for their survival, comfort and pleasure.

Behind every step of humanity's long climb from the cave to New York City, there is the man who took that step for the first time the man who discovered how to make a fire or a wheel or an airplane or an electric light.

When people refuse to consider the source of wealth, what they refuse to recognize is the fact that wealth is the product of man's intellect, of his creative ability, fully as much as is art, science, philosophy or any other human value.

The Objectivist Forum

The Money-Making Personality

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/money.html



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Sun 11/02/14 01:03 PM

Because the top 1 percent won't give up their money.


...........and how long would that feed the "Poor"?laugh

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Sun 11/02/14 01:13 PM


Because the top 1 percent won't give up their money.


...........and how long would that feed the "Poor"?laugh


Not long..................

Lpdon's photo
Sun 11/02/14 01:15 PM

Because the top 1 percent won't give up their money.


Why should they have to?

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