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Wouldn't all the troubles in the world just dissappear, if people had to barter, or labor for food, shelter? Could we live a quality life, with technology and education, but without money? Is money nescessary, to learn electronics, sewage systems, or politics? Maybe merit/demerit points would be a better method, just curious, and wondering if theists, and atheists aggree or disaggree on the issue of money...
2007-12-07 03:33:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-12-07 13:51:04 · update #1
There's a song by a local singer that I like that has a line that goes "It's simple, but it's stupid - like wearing sneakers in the rain" - ( I like wearing sneakers in the rain). What I mean by this is that is such a simple idea that would have such a profound impact, but most people won't even be able to consider it intellectually because it won't make it past their preconcieved notions.
He's got a couple of songs at the site below, if you have real player you might get a kick out of em. Doesn't have the one I mentioned. Bummer.
2007-12-07 03:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money is necessary to have specialization of labor in such a large society, and to have any kind of cultural advancements in terms of art, academics, etc. The barter system would immediately eliminate, for example, theoretical physicists and special ed teachers because their services are needed by so few people that they would have to make a complex system of trades just to get food on the table every day.
Money is just units of stored value so that I can do what I do every day and have the work product stored not as the crops I bring in or the birdhouses I make but as a dollar that trades anywhere for anything - I can get crops from the grocer even if she doesn't need or want a birdhouse. I think that's a major advancement.
Money is not evil, it's just a tool for facilitating easier trade - including charity. If a person needs medicine, giving them a free birdhouse is useless. But any of us can contribute money to St. Jude's.
It's the love of money that is evil. But loving your life is evil too, as is not hating your father and mother, according to Jesus. these sayings are not meant to be static and literal, they are almost like koans by which we are supposed to work out our own salvation by feeling our way out of fear and greed and so on.
Hope that is at least something different than what you've already heard elsewhere!
2007-12-07 03:42:56 · answer #2 · answered by ledbetter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think it would change anything. The concept of money and exchange is amoral (neither moral or immoral). It's like the internet, we can use it for good or bad things. The issue is not with the means of exchange but the heart of the exchanger. It is a heart issue not an economic issue.
2007-12-07 03:39:56 · answer #3 · answered by Matt K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. Concepts of money are produced from selfishness and create the haves and the have nots. If everyone had the interests of the species as a whole in mind, we'd all be happier and healthier.
2007-12-07 03:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said you can not serve mammon (money) and God, for you will love one (for the love of money) and hate the other.
We are the nation of babylon, we love money and will cause wars to take it from others, we take from our poor and give it to the rich.
Jesus said a camel would have a better chance of going through the eye of a needle than a richman getting into heaven.
2007-12-07 03:44:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What, you don't like money? Do you not have any? To save, spend, or invest? There are those who are meant to have money, and those who wouldn't know how to hang on to it if it were bolted to their head. What about the equity, commodity, and bond markets.... there are so many financial wheels turning that make everything in your life possible....
2007-12-07 03:46:17 · answer #6 · answered by blujello 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the money that is evil, it's like most things a stick isn't evil unless I bash someone in the head with it.
2007-12-07 03:42:28 · answer #7 · answered by Lou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's nothing wrong with having money, according to the Bible. It's making it ones priority in life, placing it above all other things including worshipping God, that is condemned.
2007-12-07 03:42:10 · answer #8 · answered by Trevor S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money per se, is not bad, but unbacked paper money sets up a system of legalized counterfieting, where the government gets to decide how much wealth to extract as it sees fit.
2007-12-07 03:40:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Money is necessary. The love of money is not. God says, "the love of money is the root of all evil."
2007-12-07 03:56:19 · answer #10 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋