Money is the primary motivator of people, true or false explain?

Question

Money is the primary motivator of people.
Money is not the primary motivator of people.
which side do you agree with?

Answer 1

Money is a secondary motivator. In other words, it allows you to have (buy) primary needs; ie. food, water, shelter, sex.
I can see how you'd think money would be primary, but it's not.
Actually the largest motivator there is, is love.
Fear is the second strongest motivator. It motivates people to act and not act. Most people are in a constant state of being terrified of something.

Answer 2

Money is not the primary motivator. Money is just a means of getting what the person wants in life. The true motivator is that persons wants or desires, and that varies from person to person. For the most part people want pleasure and avoid pain. Money is just a tool to get pleasure or avoid pain.

Answer 3

Money is not the primary motivator. We want the stuff that money can get for us.

Look at the generational welfare families. G'mom, mom, daughter, grand daughter. All on welfare. None motivated to "Go get some money." Why? Because they already have all that they believe they need, that they would go out and buy if they had money.

Answer 4

Money is the primary motivator of people because;

Billions of people go to work everyday for money.. stop paying them and see how motivated they will be to continue working every day...

Money is not the primary motivator of people because;

Millions of people volunteer their time and services without any monetary benefit to themselves included. Also millions more are inclined to intercourse daily with each other as a form of cheap entertainment, or pleasure without being paid for such motivations...

The correct answer therefore is both true and false approximately equal...

I cannot agree with one over the other?

Answer 5

You have over-simplified the question.

A) Does "money" strictly indicate currency- as we know it in modern first world countries? What about commodity, property, wealth, barter? In a system which allows personal property to be considered "money" for barter, do we "own" other people? The money we use today is just paper, albeit paper with meaning. The meaning is perhaps more important, but your question doesn't indicate whether you're interested in hearing about meaning at all- in fact with such a simplistic treatment of the question one could hardly believe that you are interested in any real depth in the responses at all.

B) If you're looking for a simple majority of human passion, or a slight edge over other drives; or do you mean primary _as opposed to_ secondary- what do you mean by "primary"?

C) To think of it, what do you mean by "motivator"? I have to assume that you did not mean little bits of paper money are sitting on the shoulders of mankind telling them what to do using the mysterious powers it possesses. Believe me this is not too far from the Christian concept of Spiritual Warfare- I'm just hoping that this isn't what _you_ meant. I'm guessing, though again the bareness of your question does leave a lot of room for interperetation, that you meant not "motivator of people" but instead something more akin to "object of desire" or "measure of success" for people, or something close to that. And does this motivation require conscious thought? If so, the "primary motivator" for drug addicts would not be "getting a fix" unless they really knew that's what was causing their anxiety, and they may be more interested in something more... esoteric. Like "benjamins".

D) Assuming that you redefine the previous criteria, we're still left with the most troubling term: people. Does this mean strictly homo sapiens sapiens, and in assuming that, again only the ones who happen to be alive today? What's more, if we assume that you're only talking about "modern man" (whatever that means), would you include in your query those people who exist in tribal cultures that do not even recognize the concept of money? Perhaps, if understanding isn't required, we can also include children and idiots into our "focus group".


My answer, as simply then as you have asked it is:

FALSE

But the reason is this:

I refuse to recognize as true any excessively simple axiomatic phrase (like "money is the root of all evil" for example) in regards to human interaction- or anything else in the world that has any meaning- and I so refuse because ___I don't want to be the one responsible for what happens when YOU, given such simple answers to such complex questions, simply STOP thinking in depth.___

Answer 6

Well somewhere in middle..once a person gets motivated by the flow of money the money takes control and becomes the biggest motivator.

Answer 7

I believe money is the primary motivator for people because the world is set up that we have to have money to survive and have our wants. Money is the root of all evil.

Answer 8

Money is the primary motivator of people. Without money, how could anyone survive?

Answer 9

Money is a means to an end. Survival of our genes (sex, love, rock and roll, greenpeace and war) is the most primal motivator.

P.S peace dude, and stay off the pot.

Answer 10

corruption rules-at the level your talking about who cares?, people will play the money head game but the real games is to motivate u to work no matter what for just to coerce ur life from u