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Old 08-07-07, 03:39 PM
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Good point about how money drives us to do better in life, but isn't that just greed? In some cases greed, in others necessity, I guess. And it is because of others' greed that it is necessary to have money. But it does give us something other than fame and personal accomplishment to strive for. If it was spread evenly we would all live safe and prosperous, yet uninspired and uncreative lives. So there are pros and cons to every situation. I would prefer a world in which money bought us things but did not control everything about our lives. We would work for money, and strive to better ourselves to have more, but not because we would starve without it and not because of our greed.

The problem is because human nature sucks, we have places where wealth is shared evenly and places with rich and poor people.
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the wealth isn't really shared evenly anywhere, the whole world is just about below the poverty level while the richest 1-5% (i dont remember the exact number) hold onto 1/3rd of the worlds currency, and for the most part, those are the people who hold positions of power, and when you're blinded by that much money, you don't really have a solid connection to the world around you
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Good point about how money drives us to do better in life, but isn't that just greed?
I'm not sure why you say this. Do you not have the ambition to succeed in life? To not have to worry and grieve financially?

Just because you want money does not mean your greedy.
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True enough.
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