Does Money hold any Value to You?

Question

How important is Money to You? What kind of presidence (if any) does it hold? My Boyfriend says that Money has to Value to him....it's just for spending and buying things....it doesn't define him and/or make him how he is.....I was wondering how many other people out there can recognize this to be truth and can identify.....Think about it, Are you one of those people that defines yourself and worth by how much money you make or have? Does having it make you feel better about yourself? Are you trying to show off? Why?

"There are people who have money and people who are rich." -Coco Chanel

Answer 1

I wonder what all the hoopla over money is here in the Y!A Philosophy today.

Anyhow, money is valuable for one's survival. The physical currency itself is of little relevance, but its value is very much important for obtaining one's needs. (After all, there is something that is backing that currency that gives it value.) Money should not be the sole deciding factor of determining one's own self-worth or esteem, but it does play a huge part.

Answer 2

Money that has been earned through honest and hard work is highly valuable and has a definite role in defining a person...... it shows the value he could give to the society and also the value he can provide to his family.... of course there are important values other than money earned that define a person apropos the society and family, but money earned through honest and hard work can not be undermined at all. Those who feel that their earnings are not much to be proud of, are the people who undermine the role of money in defining themselves, for obvious reasons! At the same time, giving too much value to money would also indicate an otherwise poor opinion about own personality in aspects other than money related ones.

Answer 3

Money is very important to me, in the sense that I like eating good food, and I enjoy having a nice home. I like to travel with my family, and I enjoy being able to do fun things.
I could afford to have a showy car, but I'm practical, and choose to drive my beat up 1998 Dodge Durango with over 200,000 miles on it. I could care less what it looks like, but am more concerned with it's usefulness. My home is nice, and I could afford to have nicer furniture, but my family and friends are comfortable, and that's what is most important.
I buy clothes at Goodwill and other 2nd hand shops, and love to brag about the deals that I get. My husband and I both gave up our careers and got jobs, because spending time together and not being on call 24/7 was more important than having "stuff".

Answer 4

In one of the best books ever written, Atlas Shrugged, a character says, "The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality." He says this because you make money through production and trade, which is the greatest way to live, "...as a producer who creates value and then gains values from others through voluntary exchange."

Money does not do anything by itself, but since it is the medium of exchange. Money is an abstract "symbol of justice, achievement, and progress."

But since everyone in the world works hard and to the best of their ability in order to get money. They set the value of money and they are then able to use that money to trade for the best of other people's ability.

And finally, one more quote from Atlas Shrugged, "Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns-or dollars.Take your choice-there is no other-and your time is running out."

On the terms of whether money can make you happy.... I think a lot of people will say no just to fit social expectations, but I think they know they are lying. While I believe that huge amounts of money will not make you happy, I do believe money is needed for happiness. For instance, a friend of mine said that she does not need money to be happy, all she needs is her family ( a husband and a newborn baby). Well, I can see how millions of dollars will not make you happy, but if she had no money and her baby was starving to death and had no bed to sleep in.... You can not tell me that such a condition would make her happy. So, I believe that money does buy happiness to a degree.

I think that answers the question . =\

Answer 5

Well, ask YOURSELF... would you be with his broke *** at a homeless shelter? And propose your honest answer to him.
Then see what he thinks about money.
Of course, it is why I got a mortgage, a car and this computer... it does have value, but I in no way worship or think of it as anything more than the means to end of my survival in this wonderful capitalist state!
People who say money isn't important are defeated poor people and tantamount to Jews thinking their king should be crucified and die... What LOSERS these people and Christians ARE!!! Really? Is that what should happen to what is important and can save you? Should we now create a pack of lies to live around!?

Answer 6

I don't get carried away about how much money I have but it is nice to have a little when you need to pay your bills or buy something. The world we live in revolves around money so most days we have to face what we can afford & what we can't.

Tell your boyfriend if has extra he doesn't care about_ he could always give it to you so you can go shopping.

Answer 7

I have all of my needs and the needs of my family covered and some of our wants also. So money isn't that important, when we were struggling to cover our needs, it was pretty important... I guess it's all about what you have and if you have enough but if you have enough and still want more then you are either ambitious or greedy... Honestly I don't think I'm either one. It doesn't define me or make me feel better but it's important all the same...

Answer 8

Money does not define me. Money is something that allows me to feed my family, house my family, keep my family from being on the streets. Money is freedom to make choices that I could not make if I had no money at all. I've been at different, by far, stages of having money. My personality stayed the same.............and, having been dirt poor, rather wealthy, and back to just able to pay the bills............I am still myself........and I am glad that I had the greatest wealth when I was rearing my children......because we could afford the doctors my children needed, and because they always had decent clothes of their backs and shoes that didn't hurt their feet, as well as nutritious food to eat. I DO know people who define themselves as being rich..........very rich. When this happens to them, they become wretched people. I even know one man who introduced himself to me, as (first, his name), then, "I'm a billionaire.". I felt sorry for him. He really IS a billionaire, and to think that he felt it was important to let me know that (as if I didn't know it, already) made me think he had his priorities really messed up. HE uses him money to bully people. I use my money to survive in a world that uses money as our bartering system.

Answer 9

People say that money can't buy happiness. Possibly because you dont see happiness displayed on the counters of supermarkets.But there is no doubt that it can buy many things which will make you happy.

Answer 10

I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said that it's not money that is the root of all evil, but rather the lack of money. I'd pretty much go along with that.