It is widely held that a love of money is evil. However, what do you think of my outlook?
I'm at University (UK) and my parents are fast reaching retirement age- they don't earn a lot as it is and the UK pension is pitiful to say the least. So, my ambition is to leave University and get the highest paid job I can straight away, and end up earning as much money as possible- purely to support my parents and try to pay back all the good they have done for me over the past twenty years despite poor health and incomes.
My parent's welfare is the sole reason I seek money, as I am not interested in fast cars or heated swimming pools or any of that. My dream is to be able to buy a house with enough ground so my parents (and those of my fiancee) can have their own little places with privacy but at the same time be close by.
I merely want to look after them in old age and, I'm sure, money is the best tool for the job (but it is little more than that, a tool).
So is this evil? Thanks
2006-06-06 00:10:36 · 24 answers · asked by DaveyMcB 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you have a very generous outlook and should be proud of yourself, well done
2006-06-06 00:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by mandy_lewis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To give up Uni, is a short term, but bad solution. You regain the money easily if you finish Uni first and earn then more money. In addition to that, long term you will be much happier if you later get a job which you enjoy. Your parents are probably as well disappointed if you give up Uni, after they worked so hard for your support.
2006-06-06 07:19:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're making money to support your parents, then you're not doing it because you love money are you? It's not that money in and of itself is evil, and if you touch lots of it or earn lots of it, then it's bad.
I know a Christian guy who's worth £6 billion. He still lives at the same standard as he did when he had only a little money - he gives the rest away to good causes and Christian charities. He does not love money, but he is a gifted entrepreneur and finds it easy to make a lot of money. So he thought to himself: money does indeed make the world go round, why don't I dedicate my life to making it and then giving it all away? The moral: it's not the makaing of money that matters, it's your attitude to it. That's why it's "love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" not "money is the root of all evil".
2006-06-08 08:56:52 · answer #3 · answered by D Law 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah, tisn't Evil. The young must care for the old, right? I think your plan is honorable, proper, and comendable. Many of my fellow Americans will, sadly, put their parents in Retirement Homes when they become too old to care for themselves. With your plan, you could hire a day-nurse to come by and help out instead of shipping your own flesh and blood to an Institution. If you get crazy successful, you could get a nice island for you all to live on. Grands can be a great help with your own children too, you know. The 'grandma revolution' helarded in a new age of human social adaptation when our hunter/gatherer anscestors started living longer. Your devotion to family values is really groovy.
2006-06-06 07:19:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your reason for wanting money is good, money can however be evil if used for the wrong things or if one seeks it to the exclusion of other good things in life like knowlegde , faith in God etc,
but you can also be good to your parent even if you are not rich by being kind to them and by treating them well.
2006-06-12 19:40:08 · answer #5 · answered by zaki1968 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You said the answer yourself: the LOVE of money, or more appropriately, the desire for money for use to obtain power over others. Your desires to care for your parents, grandparents, children, aunts, uncles, or spinster neice, are not evil. That's survival instinct. Go for the money. Make all you can. It doesn't last long.
2006-06-06 07:24:36 · answer #6 · answered by johngjordan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our perception that money will give us all we want is evil. Money does not buy happiness to use an old cliche. Your intentions are admirable in that your want of money is to procure ease & happiness for your parents & your fiancee's parents. Try not to drive yourself so hard to accomplish this goal as you may lose sight of it by trying to gain more & more money. Parents will be happy to see you happy which is why they have continued to provide for you even with their difficulties.
2006-06-06 07:20:15 · answer #7 · answered by curiousgeorge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A love for money is not evil, money makes the world go round, and as it is your aspiration, can do a many great and wonderful things. Aspire to get as rich as you can, as I can clearly see that you'll be a person to do good as far as you go!
2006-06-06 07:16:55 · answer #8 · answered by mortierella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not doing it for the love of money, you're doing it for the love of your parents. Your intentions are very altruistic and not evil in the least.
2006-06-06 07:14:51 · answer #9 · answered by michael52181 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
money is a tool, you're right. the currency itself is not evil, it's the selfish greed for it that is. In yourcase, you plan to be selfless with the money, so it obviously cannot be construed as evil.
2006-06-06 07:18:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you love your parents, not money.
2006-06-09 15:33:36 · answer #11 · answered by Cameron H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋