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What do you guys think it is that makes some people yearn for something so badly? For instance, some people, as myself, are always hungry for money. I'm ashamed to say that even when it comes to making a couple of bucks, I'd go to great lengths to acquire the funds. Fortunately, I never hurt anyone in the process nor do I scam anyone but just the thought of making money fascinates me.

I know a lot of people wish they'd have loads of money but surprisingly, there's just as many people that don't envision making money as one of their priorities. Every time I do something, my first thought is; is it profitable? I've thought long and hard about why people like myself crave making money so much and why we're so selfish and greedy and the only possible hypothesis I came up with is because perhaps we'd been deprived of it when we were young.

The same way a kid from South Africa, having been deprived an education for their entire youth, would be absolutely thrilled to be able to go to school and learn in America. The same concept applies to being selfishly stuck-up on making money. Do you think it's because we didn't have a lot of money as children growing up in our family? Or do you think it could be related to something entirely different?
 
Yes the first thing I think of is if I can make money doing this, or something similar. I supposed it's just that people are deprived to gain power, and money meens power, people also want whatever they can have, and with money, those desirables become reality.

I personally wish to be relatively wealthy.

Great HQ post as usual!
 
In our society, money is the key to nearly everything, transportation, a home, and even food.

People are dependent on that key, they think they need it to survive.
 
Life said:
In our society, money is the key to nearly everything, transportation, a home, and even food.

People are dependent on that key, they think they need it to survive.
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and there true, you can't survive in this decade without money, it's virtually a need not a want.
 
Ireppgold said:
you can't survive in this decade without money, it's virtually a need not a want.
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Firstly, money is not a necessity. As far as economics go, food, clothing and shelter are the basic necessities. Everything else are merely desires fed by a superficial world. You think you need something, therefore you want it.
 
Solidify said:
Firstly, money is not a necessity. As far as economics go, food, clothing and shelter are the basic necessities. Everything else are merely desires fed by a superficial world. You think you need something, therefore you want it.
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Tell me this: if you had no money how would you survive?
 
Life said:
Go in the wild, make a shelter, hunt for food. Survive how we did before there was money.
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No offence, but 100% of people in this forum lack the ability to survive in the wild, who watches bear grilles, even he nearlly dies and he is VERY KNOWLEDGABLE about the wild and it's dangers. 80% of the world would die if they resorted to the wild.
 
Ireppgold said:
Tell me this: if you had no money how would you survive?
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Well, bartering for one. Some people argue that societies such as the Native Americans had the best of it. They didn't have any type of currency, they just traded with each other. They didn't need to worry about anything (anything economically that is).

Bartering also seemed to work during the Great Depression when people were dead broke.

But obviously we live in a world where we need some sort of competitive edge. Imo, Americans are caught up in the corporate world in which 1% of the population own 20% of the nation's entire wealth, or some ridiculous amount like that. That is really fucked up.
 
And before someone feeds me this bullshit about " oh but the people back in the days did it" yes and look hiw that turned out, people were during like ants. They quickly got there act together and thus here we are, in a world where money is needed for 80% of the world to live.
 
Ireppgold said:
Tell me this: if you had no money how would you survive?
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I'm not saying we shouldn't have money at all but simply that people shouldn't prioritize it.
 
Solidify said:
I'm not saying we shouldn't have money at all but simply that people shouldn't prioritize it.
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Thank you, that's my point. We need atleast a couple of bucks to survive, my point is no money at all is a death wish for people.
 
Money is great, but unfortunately people let it rule their life. There is nothing wrong with being obsessed with money you just have to be smart enough to see the fine line of obsessed and completely insane for it.
 

For the people in America, yes. Other parts of the world? Not at all. You have to understand a society's culture from their perspective. If you bring in a tribal Samoan into America, then obviously he or she is going to need money to survive. But if you take that vice versa (bring an American into a Samoan group) and you bring money, they'll just laugh at you. They don't have any currency, and from their perspective, they are ethnocentric, meaning they think that their lifestyle/culture is the best. To them, they have the best life style they can possibly ask for.

Obviously, if one day, we happen to void all types of currency here in the US, it'll turn into a shit storm without a doubt.

I like to look at things from many different perspectives. :]


Anyway, to answer your question OP. I also feel the same way about money. I'm very competitive, which you need to be in this nation.
 
My dad was talking to me about this two days ago when I got home from work.
He gave me a talk about my future basically, and wishes to see me successful.
Fortunately, he isn't one of those parents that control their kids lives and tell them
where they're going to go and what they're going to do. His main point of the discussion that
a person is only as worth as much as they make. So he wishes to see me make a shit load of cash so
I can just lay back and work, and not work like a dog, the way he has, just because he decided not to study.
 

At least your dad has great aspirations for you.
 
Megaman.EXE said:
Yeah. I hope to not let him down.
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Parents love their children unconditionally. I'm sure you're father will be proud of you as long as you don't give up on yourself.
 
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