Materialistic life has brought down the human values -explain
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Money allows me to specialize my efforts. I focus on a single profession, trading my time and effort for money that I use to purchase goods that my profession does not produce. I would otherwise have to make everything I need myself. Things like food that I would have to grow myself, clothing that I would have to make, housing that I would have to build, and so on.
Money allows me to experience more possibilities than a life without it. I can travel without carrying all my valuables with me. I can purchases things that I could never make by myself. I can pool my money for an important purchase that might take me a lifetime to create but is easy to mass-produce by another.
Money is purposely materialistic, it gives form to an immaterial concept, value. Without money, my goods have a very limited value. Say I am a farmer, living in a community with other farmers, then trading food would have very low value! However, with money I can determine value based on the needs of all people who use my money. This is an oversimplification, of course. Money allows for more complex transactions - it allows for transportation systems to move goods to places they are needed, or to purchase multiple raw goods in a complex manufacturing process. I can't imagine things like cars or iPhones being created in a world without money, the amount of specialization and complexity would be too great for direct trade.
Money is only a means, never an end. If I were stranded alone on an island, any money I had with me would be worthless to my survival, especially if I had no hope of returning to civilization. Other people give value to money. Without others, money is worthless. So the problem ends where it always begins - people :)
Money helps me to spot materialistic people. Because money is shorthand for anything material, it helps me determine what a person's priorities are. People who are obsessed with their income, obsessed with finding the next deal, who only view the world in terms of monetary value - these people are materialistic, and they are easy to spot. I don't look down on such people, after all they are still people, but I do understand their priorities and make sure that my needs are in agreement with theirs.
For me, money obsessions determine the character of someone's materialism. People obsessed with money tend to think of the world in terms of numbers. You and your ideas are only worth however much money it takes to buy something similar (perhaps a little less, because they can always go someplace else to buy it). Compare this to a social butterfly who only values someone if other people value them first, or the guy who loves to buy glitzy things and show them off to anyone he can. Different types of materialism depending on what the person values.
Money allows me to experience more possibilities than a life without it. I can travel without carrying all my valuables with me. I can purchases things that I could never make by myself. I can pool my money for an important purchase that might take me a lifetime to create but is easy to mass-produce by another.
Money is purposely materialistic, it gives form to an immaterial concept, value. Without money, my goods have a very limited value. Say I am a farmer, living in a community with other farmers, then trading food would have very low value! However, with money I can determine value based on the needs of all people who use my money. This is an oversimplification, of course. Money allows for more complex transactions - it allows for transportation systems to move goods to places they are needed, or to purchase multiple raw goods in a complex manufacturing process. I can't imagine things like cars or iPhones being created in a world without money, the amount of specialization and complexity would be too great for direct trade.
Money is only a means, never an end. If I were stranded alone on an island, any money I had with me would be worthless to my survival, especially if I had no hope of returning to civilization. Other people give value to money. Without others, money is worthless. So the problem ends where it always begins - people :)
Money helps me to spot materialistic people. Because money is shorthand for anything material, it helps me determine what a person's priorities are. People who are obsessed with their income, obsessed with finding the next deal, who only view the world in terms of monetary value - these people are materialistic, and they are easy to spot. I don't look down on such people, after all they are still people, but I do understand their priorities and make sure that my needs are in agreement with theirs.
For me, money obsessions determine the character of someone's materialism. People obsessed with money tend to think of the world in terms of numbers. You and your ideas are only worth however much money it takes to buy something similar (perhaps a little less, because they can always go someplace else to buy it). Compare this to a social butterfly who only values someone if other people value them first, or the guy who loves to buy glitzy things and show them off to anyone he can. Different types of materialism depending on what the person values.
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