Money Living in Society
Where has money come from? Why do we need it and How has it shaped society?
The first thing you have to realise about money is that it is created by man, and therefore you can literally live without it. The problem is living without it in the current society or culture which the rest of the present world now lives in. An example is to pretend you are a man living in a cave, using homemade hunting tools to catch birds and other animals. You could survive happily with no money.
Unfortunately in our society we are brought up to see this man as crazy and mentally insane, but he may be saner than most people. OK he doesn’t have the luxuries of TV, Computers or Central Heating but then he doesn’t have the stressful job and expectations that come along with these problems. And because he has no knowledge of TV, Computers and central heating he doesn’t miss them or require them. What people enjoy in life is being able to get up when they want, to do what they want when they want. That insane man is able to do that. When we decide to do what we want we need to see how we can make money out of it, so we are able to “survive” within our society.
Why do you earn Money?
To buy food, shelter and luxuries. How much of that could you do away with without feeling bad? The less you need the less stressful job you need. Once you find out why you earn money you can trace that back to happiness, and will probably find that you don’t really need it at all.
Another take on this is that a less stressful life would mean fewer luxuries required to calm you down and make life less stressful. You wouldn’t need consoles, sky TV and golf clubs to relax you if you weren’t stressed.
Why does Money exist?
Money only exists because greedy people exist. If there are five bananas and five people and none were greedy, each would take one banana, however, it is likely the first person will take two maybe even three bananas, the next person will also take two bananas, so that the next 3 people are likely to be left with nothing. Another bad side to this is that the first two people may only actually eat 2 bananas each and throw the third away. A complete waste!
Now, if you give each person 20p only and charge 20p per banana then the equality is restored. All seems fair. However, real life is not like this. In real life the first person my have a £1 and buy all 5 bananas, leaving the other 4 with none, and again might throw one maybe two uneaten bananas away. Here the other 4 people may be lucky to earn 20p to buy 1 banana. So while the first person is wasting bananas, the other people go hungry. Why? Just because of money. Does that sound fair?
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