What is your philosophy of money?

Question

This week, I spoke to people who dislike money and those who like money. I also heard discussions about very different philosophies about money and its uses.

Do you like money? Do you dislike money?
What is your philosophy of money?

Answer 1

Money or a form of exchange is needed for a society otherwise you have complete disorder.

It started by exchanging goods like food and livestock, and evolved to gold that people eventually wrote notes to witch became money, with out it you can not give a service or an item that you have in exchange for something you need with out violence. It is a catch 22

Answer 2

I'd love to say that I'm beyond money but that would be a lie. Money matters. I don't want to be one of those people eating cat food out of a tin can under the interstate.Me taking an active interest in how I invest my income helps prevent an unhappy lifestyle. I don't obsess over it as I have other things to consume my life, but I do put a great deal of concern over what my money is doing for me, I engage in capital ventures and I practice frugality to help insure that my retirement will not be spent in the back seat of an abandon pinto. At the end of the day I marvel at others who don't seem concerned about their futures - how they spend with reckless abandon without knowing or caring what fate the future holds.

A philosophy of personal finance? Its not really centered around money, its centered around self preservation. Money just facilities the store of value.

Answer 3

I subscribe to the 1/3 philosophy, when it comes to money:

1/3 to Save
1/3 to Invest
and
1/3 to Live on, Donate, and Play with.

This simple philosophy has always served me well. Other than that I don't much bother with money; it does NOT merit a "philosophical" contemplation per se, at least, NOT as it relates to MY individual reality. ... Paul Erdös, the great mathematical genius, used to say: "Private property/money is a nuisance". ... Then again, not just anyone could be as mathematically possessed and/or spiritually evolved as Erdös.

Answer 4

Money is OK , and is nice to have. However, I am an average working women who happens to love her career. I have been working since I was 16 and have a really great retirement plan in action. I will be able to retire at about 50 and live comfortably, without worry. Money is the gift to enjoy life now and later.

Answer 5

money is a bad thing, because it promotes greed and attempts to put a 'value' on everything, like essential human necessities and puts morals on the line. work and advancements and learning should not have to be done for money and so one can acquire 'things'. everything should be done responsibly and freely from a human desire to do what is truly humane and to better the quality of life for everything other human being, and indeed all forms of life. there is enough for every single person's need on this planet and even more, and even sustainably, yet money and greediness does not let this possibility of a near perfect world into our minds, and so this type of thinking is pronounced 'radical' or 'unreasonable', and thus is never attempted, very sadly. ONE DAY!

Answer 6

I have no emotional attachment to it one way or the other. I only need a very small amount to meet my needs and the rest is irrelevant. (save for the fact that people are willing to kill each other over it and risk the life of every living thing on the planet for it - sad really)

I am reminded of an old german proverb:

When money is lost, nothing is lost
When health is lost, something is lost
When hope is lost, everything is lost

Answer 7

Money should not breed. Hence, the discussion of the theory of finance is not unworthy of philosophy; but to be engaged in finance, or in money-making, is unworthy of a free man.

Interesting question. Have a great day!

Answer 8

I like money. It can brings me things from basic needs to luxuries, and free time to do activities I like.

The problem with money is just when people became selfish and inconsiderate of others or when they don't know what would make them content... some even kill themselves.

Those are not problem with money itself. Those are problem with people -- undisciplined, selfishness and emptiness. It's only people who overlooked the real problem would hate money, forgetting about the good things it brings.

Answer 9

Sure, I like money. The only thing I dislike about it is that it is disgustingly dirty and full of germs.
My philosophy is that there is never enough of it.

Answer 10

I like money. I want to make as much money as possible