Money can buy happiness (imagine how happy you'd be if you won the lottery or found 100 bucks). Money can buy love (no girl falls for a bum on the streets). Money can buy memories (diaries, photos, cameras, video cameras, journals). Money can buy self kindness (you can donate money to charity). Money can buy everything?
2006-08-16 21:08:40 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Money acutally can buy peace, I'm sure if there were more countries there would be more wars. If all countries were rich and living well there would be less problems.
Money can also buy health, vitamins, medicine, and surgery
2006-08-16 21:16:03 · update #1
typo i ment to say if more countries were better off we'd have less problems.
2006-08-16 21:17:12 · update #2
Money can buy intelligence dude.....
Tutors, schooling, without money how do you buy books? pencils? paper? all money required. You can't go to college. I'm sure penniless bums arn't very intelligent
2006-08-16 21:18:46 · update #3
Money can even buy life... There are slaves in the world which sell for money. Money can buy your life for without any money you cannot survive unless you can live off the land and stuff. Without money it is hard to help massive people.
2006-08-16 21:23:54 · update #4
Money hasn't bought peace yet has it? Money can't buy a life back. Money can't buy something that gets rid of regrets or past mistakes. Money cannot buy anything genuine. Happiness, love, and kindness aren't real with money. It is just based on happiness, love, and kindness with money, but not with the person(s).
2006-08-16 21:12:39 · answer #1 · answered by bebeeangeldust 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you had a billion dollars, do you think you would be happy? Consider this - you would have so much money that people would know who you were. People would then intrude on your privacy, beg for money, etc. Is that a happy life?
Yes, gold diggers would come flocking - would that make you happy to be used for your money - that these people wouldn't love you for you - only for your money?
Money does not buy memories - what if you had Alzheimer's? You could look at the same photo a dozen times and it would be like seeing it for the first time.
Money can only buy goods. You can buy a car, a dress, a house.. but they won't make you happy. There are people who are infinitely poorer than us all who are happier than us.
Money is not the the complete answer.
Oh, BTW.. there's a ton of money in the Middle East.. is there peace?
2006-08-16 21:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by umwut? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money can buy happiness if you won the lottery, but money can cause sadness if you always lose the lotteries.
Money can buy love (no girl falls for a bum on the streets). But not all girls wants money but feelings.
Money can buy future memories by keeping diaries, photos, cameras, video cameras, journals etc, but money cant buy past memories which you had forgotten.
Money can buy self kindness by donating money to charity, but money cannot buy kindness from people. (people you bribed treat you with real kindness).
Money acutally can buy peace between countries, If all countries were rich and living well there would be less problems. But will bring war if you are too rich than other countries and some other countries jealous?
Money can also buy health, vitamins, medicine, and surgery. But money can't buy back deceased family and friends, can't buy medicine that has not being invented for non-curable illness.
Money can pay for studies, tutors, books, pencils paper , but money cant buy you knowledge but only buy you equipments to upgrade youself.
Money can even buy life... There are slaves in the world which sell for money. Money can buy your life for without any money you cannot survive unless you can live off the land and stuff. Without money it is hard to help massive people. But money cant help you get through dangerous situations, cant help you when you are dying, cant revive you if you are dead, and you can't taste all the above with money if you are already dead.
Money can't sell off misery and regrets...
2006-08-16 21:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was a time in my life that I would have said no to your question, but now I absolutely believe that it can buy everything.
I know someone who is very ill and dying and money would even buy her her life because she can't afford the level of health care that she needs to thrive!
Money buys freedom and that IS everything!
I certainly would be living a very different life if I had money-one that would make me very happy! And I am not talking about having things. I am talking about freedom!
In response to "Uh Yeah" above-no one has to know you have money-you don't have to live in a way that flaunts it and you don't have to have things or "goods" as you put it-money buys the best health and dental care, freedom to travel to other countries, to be who you are without the boundaries of a financial limiting box! To give to others freely, improve the planet etc.
2006-08-16 21:26:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely money is important in the world of today, but it can't buy everything.
- money can buy medecine not health else there are people who will never die b/coz of poor health.
- the world is rich therefore all countries are rich , it's all due to greed and curruption of world leaders(their advisers). so the problem of the world is not lack of money.
- money can't buy intelligence, most wonderful people come from poor families, there are many rich people whose children are just too stupid even with all the facilities avialable to them.
- when someone loves you for money, if the money goes can you still retain the love?
- if you can bring my father back to life I will pay you any amount of money you request. Can you?
2006-08-16 22:32:03 · answer #5 · answered by afaqinfo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money can buy alot of things...but there are certain things that cannot buy. "Love" for instances. You cannot make somebody feel something for you if they don't feel it. Money may be able to buy them in pretending that they love and care for you...but to have them truly "love" you. No way! Money also can't buy your health. If you have an incurable disease that there is no cure for...no matter how much money you have it won't be able to take the disease away. Money can make your life alot easier though!
2006-08-17 11:44:45 · answer #6 · answered by Lei-Loo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you have made a logical mistake in thinking about this question, i think you have said "can money by this thing 'x' - if i had this saleable commodity 'y' i would be in state 'x', therefore money can buy thing 'x'"
for example -
money can buy paper, books pens and the services of a teacher, these things are condusive to the nurturing of inteligence, therefore money can buy inteligence.
The things you are discussing are not things that can be bought or sold, happiness, inteligence, health, these are things that are retrospectivly attributed to the self. The conditions in which these are easy to obtain can be more readily found by those with large sums of money, but then this is the way with large sums of money, those who have it find it easier to get what they want.
The problem is a little niggle called inflation, if everyone in the world had as much money as someone who is comfortably off in (for example) the USA then none of those people would be able to do what someone who is comfortably of in the USA today can do in this world of scarcity because it is by keeping people poor that those with money can require them to do as they are told. It was worked out at one point (out of date figure approaching!!) that if all the money in the world was spread evenly then everyone would have 79$ US, no doubt this figure is out of date, but it serves to illustrate the point, a world where everyone had 79$ is not a world where everyone is guaranteed the things you describe money as being able to buy.
I always wondered where this quote would be appropriate, but it seems to fit here.
"there is no such thing as revolutionary power, for all power is reactionary by nature: power corrupts both those who exercise it and those over whom it is exercised"
i dunno if it seems relavent to you, but i think it hits the nail on the head here, you cant make money work for you, money makes people work for it.
2006-08-17 00:40:03 · answer #7 · answered by richard 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
money can not by happiness.
how would money fix a love one dieing?
how could money fix the pain of your little girl who's dog has ran away?
it does not by love.
i would rather be truly in love with a poor person then pretend to my self I'm in love for a rich persons money.
so i think no money cannot buy everything
2006-08-16 21:19:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can not buy happiness.If you are lonely person and have no friends,no family,nobody that cares about you(not the money) than no money can¸t buy happiness.I would like to test my theory on myself so I keep playing lottery.
2006-08-16 21:16:10 · answer #9 · answered by sanja77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it can, I can't name one thing it can't buy oh yeah my biological daughter my faith my pride...
Well technically it can I am poor so... If I want a tubal babie or my own church or I want to sport my money then yeah ...
I am a ppooorrr person and I think money is the root of all evil but it can buy something good.
2006-08-16 21:17:06 · answer #10 · answered by thought 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋