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Is it spiritually acceptable to be disillusioned with money?

I keep thinking about money, and how it seems to be at the heart of nearly every social problem in the world. It is the defining factor in poverty, it is a barrier for poor people to access their needs, it causes war, hate and division, and it is synonymous with power and influence. My first answer to all of this was that it is necessary, and all of the negative things I listed there are necessary ramifications of the necessity for a trading medium such as money. Yet the more I think of it, the less necessary I see it to be, the more motivated I am to work for as little of the stuff as I possibly can, and the more I feel compelled to think up a new system in which money and trading no longer exist. Simply put, when I look at money, I see nothing but problems. When I'm paid, I interpret it as an adjustment in my rank in the ever-changing social leaderboard. Speaking of which, I see that leaderboard as being upside down, with the productive and useful people at the bottom, and unproductive parasites at the top. Have I achieved enlightenment, or is there some kind of spiritual sickness affecting my brain?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Like it or not, with enough money, you can buy almost anything.

    In fact, you can even buy love -- or a semblance of it.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    pragmatically speaking, the wealthy income from the rest individuals, from the infrastructure, from the risk-free practices presented by utilising the U. S. protection tension (that's peopled by utilising the detrimental, case in point) and by utilising the artwork executed by utilising the detrimental. If the wealthy make $10 million a 365 days, why shouldn't they pay 0.5 or extra of that for the period of taxes? how plenty money is adequate? How plenty do you surely choose? what's honest approximately rolling in additional money which you or your loved ones will ever choose, whilst there are people who are not getting adequate to devour, and who sleep in cardboard containers. once you're a Christian, then examine Jesus. good? Charity, guy. and because multiple the wealthy (with some exceptions, like Buffet, case in point) do not look to prefer to grant away money to those in choose, taxation will might desire to suffice.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Money is not good and imaginary. Yeah.

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