{"id":371,"date":"2011-05-26T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myrealmind.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2022-05-15T00:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T00:40:40","slug":"money-the-root-cause-of-all-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/26\/money-the-root-cause-of-all-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Money: The root cause of all evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard this often and so must have you. Money is the source of all evil. Its funny how we blame money. True it causes a lot of issues. True it creates complexities and chaos. Even more true is that greed exists. Yet i cant help but think of the words &#8216;to choose between bad and evil&#8217;. Its not a easy choice to make but that&#8217;s what we have to do.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine a world without money. It will be a total chaos. There will be no measure of value. How will you measure value? By 2 truckloads of salt or my love of moon! Does that make sense? For without the existence of money nothing that we see today is possible. How will we barter a space shuttle expedition with my sister&#8217;s education. How then will the limited resources be allocated for unending needs?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I don&#8217;t believe money is evil. It is the greatest virtue life has provided me. It has given me a fair measure of value. I can now value a car and a cake on the same scale. I don&#8217;t believe that you have to hide money or your own value. I don&#8217;t believe that you need to hide your own worth. I specially don&#8217;t believe in the fact of keeping your salaries from people. If i earn so much, i am worth it! When we can disclose what Mukesh Ambani earns, then why cant i disclose what I earn. Or whats the whole point of it being unethical or rude?<\/p>\n<p>Rather than being source of all evil, money is the source of all luxury and pleasure. In science we generally tend to have a major rule and some minor exceptions to this rule. The same is the case here. For most people money can buy happiness barring a few exceptions and a lot of cases where people don&#8217;t want to believe this themselves for the fear of sounding unsocial.<\/p>\n<p>I guess lets just stop this bull-shit about money being wrong. Rather we should embrace it more openly that might help prune out the inefficiencies in the system!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard this often and so must have you. Money is the source of all evil. Its funny how we blame money. True it causes a lot of issues. True it creates complexities and chaos. Even more true is that greed exists. 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