I heard oil companies paid off an inventor that could have marketed a special carburetor that recycled the gas though it till it was all used, instead off letting fumes escape, netting a huge increase in miles per gallon.
Are we being duped? Are gas prices too high? Do you think the love of money is preventing people companies from helping make the world a better place?
Will practices of greed like this destroy our world?
If we got rid of money, would the world be a better place?
2007-02-15 20:11:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
Funnily enough, I heard a similar story years ago. A guy had designed an engine which could run on water - something about splitting the Hydrogen atom to use for combustion and emitting the Oxygen atom (to make fluffy bunnies smile).
Similarly, the story went that he was paid off for his invention and that it was taken to a warehouse somewhere (picture final scene of Raiders of the Lost Arc) to sit with other environmental/energy saving inventions while the fat (oily) cats get fatter (and oilier).
2007-02-15 20:16:04 · answer #1 · answered by SnowBunny 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Money is not destroying the world.
Cave men worked very hard to create a civilization that included money as a means of transferring wealth easily, so that goods could flow from those who had an excess of a certain commodity, to those that had a desire for it.
The only people who are being duped regarding money are those people who are being programmed to give their money up to people who rule, but never earned the money.
Totalitarianism destroys the world. Through force. Money is just like, well, a cave painting, to show what we've done. Not that big a deal unless you're a materialist. Like Marx and Engles.
2007-02-15 20:26:34 · answer #2 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry. It makes the world go round, whether we like it or not.... but greed would still happen even if we were using seashells instead!
2007-02-15 20:22:39 · answer #3 · answered by Bart S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes to all questions except the last one
getting rid of money is not the point
it is to get it in an honest way and spend it for the right reason .
money if used for gud reasons is not destroting our world wat is destroying is greed!
2007-02-15 20:16:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as you are getting rid of your money ,send it to me.I'll make sure I will put it to good use.
2007-02-15 20:14:02 · answer #5 · answered by Dfirefox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correction- he was assinated. The idea is to make money while it can be made.
2007-02-15 20:13:58 · answer #6 · answered by red2queen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course it is!people innocent people die because of money.people will do anything to get money even kill people.
2007-02-15 20:14:46 · answer #7 · answered by Alec R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
money is root to every evil..........but think back even we had more wars during BC
2007-02-15 20:15:09 · answer #8 · answered by Vinesh K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋