"Money makes the world go round", or so the saying goes. But what is the true value of money? Money consists of (in Australia) pieces of thin plastic with numbers printed on them and metal discs with numbers stamped on them, but what is the true value of a pocket full of this stuff?
Try this, take only what you are wearing right now and a fist full of money. Go to the middle of a desert, the ocean, the top of a mountain or any place hostile and far from other people. Now try to live there with only what you are wearing and your money, no tools, no communications, no help just money. How long would you survive? Or if this is too much trouble go to a zoo and jump in the lions cage, especially one that has cubs in it, and try to pay the lion with money not to attack or try to pay a bear not to maul you if you threaten it. How much luck would you have?
So my question is what (if anything) is the true value of money? Why is it that people will spend their lives in pursuit of it? Since money seems only to hold a virtual value to humans, is it that those obsessed with it are virtually insane?
What is the true value of money?
Please explain your answers and the reasoning behind them.
Thanks.
2007-09-09
20:41:56
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Arthur N
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Philosophy