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Goodness is the root of all money, or should be. When you supply goods and services that others desire, they pay you money. Or you can sell your labor to a person or company who needs the labor to provide goods and services.
So money reflects usefulness to the rest of society.
Of course, some use political advantage to gain money without providing value, or a monopoly position or union contract to gain money beyond the value provided.
But generally, goodness (virtue) is the root of all money.
Greed is the root of all evil, not money. Greed for wealth, greed for power, gluttony. Money is the avenue to both good and evil, which roads one chooses to obtain wealth and how one employs it once obtained is the obvious key.
Why is it that some people of predominately left leaning political ideologies like to blame inanimate objects for "evil" (money, guns, high fructose corn syrup, etc ...) rather than the choices made by men/women and abdicate personal responsibility as a player in good vs. evil?
Isn't it the lack of money, or perhaps more precisely, the materials needed to live well, that is the root of all evil?
Well fed, fat, happy people would have little reason to commit "evil" for the most part.
(Granted, human nature is such that some of them would find some reason to commit evil, even if just for entertainment.)
Money, by itself, is nothing but a convenient means of valueing and exchanging goods and services. The "money" is nothing more than an accounting system. It is the evils created by the greed referenced in "the love of money", that creates not only social injustice, but much harm for those who are unable to compete in a heavily weighted and essentially unfair "marketplace". Our financial system is not unlike a casino, where "the house" is heavily weighted against the aveerage " player ". .. .in this case "the house" being large corporations, largely free of regulation.
Goodness is the root of all money, or should be. When you supply goods and services that others desire, they pay you money. Or you can sell your labor to a person or company who needs the labor to provide goods and services.
So money reflects usefulness to the rest of society.
Of course, some use political advantage to gain money without providing value, or a monopoly position or union contract to gain money beyond the value provided.
But generally, goodness (virtue) is the root of all money.
Atlas Shrugged should be required reading in every school in the nation, and every student should have to pass a test to prove they understand what Ian Rand learned through experience: that communism and socialism violate the most basic psychology of mankind, that we work to improve our lives and the lives of those we love.
Atlas Shrugged should be required reading in every school in the nation, and every student should have to pass a test to prove they understand what Ian Rand learned through experience: that communism and socialism violate the most basic psychology of mankind, that we work to improve our lives and the lives of those we love.
I think you mean Ayn Rand.
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