Is that true or not? I am simply asking a question out of curiosity. Don't get it twisted.?

Question

I have always heard the saying money isn't everything. If that is true, I was wondering some things about that statement. If that is true, can you tell a homeless person cheer up money isn't everything? Can you tell a bill collector you don't need to pay your debts cause money isn't everything? Can you tell a guy with a wife and kids who lost his job cheer up money isn't everything? Can you just up and quit your job because you don't need money after all money isn't everything right? If you win the lottery worth millions of dollars, you can just throw all that away because money isn't everything right? If your child is very sick and in need of medical attention but you don't have insurance or money to pay for treatment, don't worry about it because money isn't everything right? You need bail money to get yourself out of jail but wait no you don't because money isn't everything right? There is no need to raise money to find cures for deadly diseases because money isn't everything.

Answer 1

Saying that money isn't everything isn't saying that it isn't anything at all. It means that while money matters, it isn't all that matters.

Answer 2

Money really isn't everything. Here's why:

On the whole, we aren't really interested in money per se. We want a better life or a better wife or a better knife, maybe. Money is often the fastest and / or the easiest way to achieve what we want but is money what we want? No, we want something else that we believe money will get us.

"Everything" is everything we want out of life. Money may be a large part of it. After all, peace of mind is easier to come by if we know that our bank balance is large enough to take care of some emergency.

But does that make money everything?

I'm in the mood, so let me try and answer some of your sub-questions:

"Can you tell a homeless person cheer up money isn't everything?"

Perhaps not, but you seem to presume that the homeless person is seeking money. What if the person is seeking homelessness itself? Not in a negative way but as an expression of freedom?

"Can you tell a bill collector you don't need to pay your debts cause money isn't everything?"

This is obfuscication. No one said you must not pay your debts. Even the most liberal religions tell you that you must pay your debt to society. "Money isn't everything" is not an excuse not to pay your debts, monetary or otherwise. When you bought whatever thingamajig you bought that put you in debt was money the most important thing to you? No, the thingamajig was. Else you'd have hung on to your money.

"Can you just up and quit your job because you don't need money after all money isn't everything right?"

Obfuscication again. "Money isn't everything" in no way says that money isn't something. That something may be sustenance or luxury.

I'd rather not go on because if you haven't got it by now, you never will. Of course money isn't everything. It's only a means to an end, including finding cures for deadly diseases.

If money were everything, finding cures for those diseases would be worth nothing, since money had already pre-empted all worth.

Money is but a means (among several others) to an end and is therefore really not everything. Throwing money at an unmotivated scientist isn't going to find a cure for cancer.

Answer 3

Money isn't everything, assuming that you have enough to live on. For example, you might not take a job that would pay a lot more than the one you have, if you really don't like the terms of the job.

Answer 4

You espext us to answer each and every one of these questions. I guess the statement "money is not everything" means that having money is necessary but not sufficient to make life perfect for everyone? Get it? In other words, you need money but just having money is not enough to solve all problems. Some people may not have money problems or all the problems above (or even if they did, with money they would solve these problems). However, there are people who will not be happy regardless of having money. There are other things in life than money that make up someone's happiness.

Answer 5

usually the people who say "money isn't everything" already have plenty of it themselves.