The value of money on plant earth.

I have a feeling that this topic will end up in utmost controversy due to clashing opinions, differentials in evaluating theories and feedback. Therefore, I would advocate for an admin or mod to take proper procedures if the topic gets out of hand.

Note that I am not affiliated with a church or any form of religious context when I am speaking of this, to prevent any unwanted ad hominem attacks.

With that being said, moving onwards…
What is the purpose of money to you?

I understand that the needs for fiscal matters can be different from person to person, country to country.

But I feel it’s safe to say that eventually the whole world, which is including the underdeveloped nations, will end up viewing those greenbacks for the same reason as the United States is.

Here is my take on it, with my own theories.

Money is turning itself into a social norm, making its way as a judgmental factor over people, things, almost everything.

As I think about it from time to time over the years, it is increasingly alerting me that fiscal matters are getting out of hand. Nowadays, money pretty much subconsciously defines people for what they do, who they are. The car that you drive signifies how much money you can make. The house you own and where it is, the neighborhood or city it resides in. How much you can spend on dinner tonight. What clothes do you wear. These are social symbols that rank people apart. Almost everything is based on money, even accepting money at charities are becoming a norm over helping out in person.

Do you really want to be apart of the ranking system? Even if subconsciously? Just to play the game that everyone else on the top of this chain is winning, but for no utter purpose other than looking important or standing out?

Yet, people still work for the same amount of difficulty. The filing worker at the mortgage agency has a lot of daily activity to work on, such as the monstrosity of the paperwork required to be done. The chief financial accountant at Boeing 747 may have similar paperwork that overlaps the same things that the mortgage agency worker does, but their differences in income is vast. Let’s say, 100k/year versus 50k/year. Yet they are putting in that same amount of effort of work.

Food for thought:

1. If today, the NASA USS Apollo 5X launched an experimental testing program of sending twenty people onto a distant planet X nearby that was found to be habitual for humans, think of the results. Money would probably be considered the least of everyone’s worries once they settled and were completely independent of relying on outside help (eg, supplies shipment from Earth). Only until the population grows, to say about 1,000 people on theoretical planet X, somehow down the line someone develops the idea of separating people apart by their distinction. Then, monetary values somehow makes its way mainstream and then we have planet earth all over again.

2. If today, a nuclear strike from any country destroyed 99.9999% of the Earth’s population. Using the US Census Bureau, it says that the population as of 12/01/2008 is estimated to be 6,740,422,806 people. .0001% of this would mean that 674,042 people would be alive as an aftermath of this holocaustic event. Movie/novel like I am Legend comes to mind for a graphical example. With 674,042 people in the world left, and some probably going to pass away due to natural problems, surely money is going to become next to worthless. The world would be on an epidemic on focusing to recover and what the future would hold.

What happened to the days that money wasn’t the issue, and that making a day’s worth of food, decent shelter, and daily necessities were considered enough?

Why can't people find a decent doctor that doesn't rely on your health insurance plan? That you could walk in, seem worthy enough for a checkout (being a decent person), and help you recover from your illness or problem free of charge. And that they insist that you have a insurance coverage plan, or else you're SOL and got to pay ridiculous amounts of cash.

Hell, even AD.com for example – see that this forum is provided for free of charge social purposes, similar to most other forums on the internet – yet it understands that webhosting is not free unless you do it on your own server. That is what I presume the ads are for, to help break back the costs of hosting it free of charge.

Your criticisms, opinions and thoughts are highly welcomed.

The purpose of money is to buy my happiness! Just kidding...


It used to hold so much value for me..the more money, the happier I was. I was young and niave about what my values were.

Right now, I dont obsess about money as much but just want to have enough to keep my house, a car, my family fed, a few trips, clothe my family, and etc.

When I think of money, I think of ways to save it as opposed to ways of spending it like I used to.

Interesting post. I think money's important, but it's something people need to keep under control. Money is a form of power- economic power. Like other forms of power, it can corrupt you if you're too greedy for it. It's much the same with political power- it's necessary (someone has to run the show), but as we see in Illinois, it can corrupt you if you're not careful.

I think a good way of guarding yourself from the corrupting influence of money is to give some of it away to charitable causes. Not enough to make yourself destitute or significantly lower your standard of living, of course. I think that helps to keep things in perspective.

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seriously through to have the money that re of great value in ur life above such a obvious priorities like ur wife or gf or kids or family or friends is simply just greedy

money is just a object a currency used for trade its just a thing its unforunately that ppl make it seem like they re alive and let it control each aspect of their lives

granted we have no choice but to work for it to earn money to use it to get foods and get the bills paid but hats just it its still a thing matter of numbers and digits nothing more

treating it more than such is just silly

thats my opinion of course

No offense but

darkflare83 said:

seriously through to have the money that re of great value in ur life above such a obvious priorities like ur wife or gf or kids or family or friends is simply just greedy

money is just a object a currency used for trade its just a thing its unforunately that ppl make it seem like they re alive and let it control each aspect of their lives

granted we have no choice but to work for it to earn money to use it to get foods and get the bills paid but hats just it its still a thing matter of numbers and digits nothing more

treating it more than such is just silly

thats my opinion of course

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I agreed what you said...

We have to survive for our living and shelter.

Here is a perfect example of a man who was a Nasdaq chairman stole 50 billion dollars at the Wall Street. He is Bernie Madoff, and he is a sick man! What more does he want? He would have a few millions dollars which is a good enough for his age. He is 70 years old, for a sake.

Survival to the fittest! Is what is used to be.

now it is the Survival to the richest!

depends on how people look at money. I may say, My money is hard earned and I use it to survive, House payments, vehicle payments, and to splurge, you all get the drift.

My point is I WORK for it. I pay my Taxes. So I dare anyone to say how I spend my money or use it for pleasure.

we can not help but to treat it as a digit because it is all simply math.

Ignoring the spam post, but anyways. Do you think it's due to growth of modern capitalism? Looking back, when I'm thinking of the Socialism and Communism or even as far back to Feudalism, these vestigial governments today, are considered "crap" and most people joke at you if you are/were a follower. But if you've read the true communist manifesto, the true intent of it is to equalize prosperity among all people.

The cliffnotes of the Communist Manifesto - even I am guilty to not remembering them all. Copied and pasted straight from the net:

10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.[6]

The only problem I can see in this is the corruption of the state government officials with all that money. But, the government IS after all considered to be the people themselves.