Thursday, November 12, 2015
Money is a Drug
After reading this article and thoroughly thinking about the topic my first thought was, money is a drug. Isn't it? people make money then want to make more money in any way we can. Money can be a negative and positive factor in everyday life. It can give you money to take your family and or friends out to have fun or you can be so worn out from working all day that all you want to do is sit down and then do nothing to just get back up again to go back to work to make more money. Is this really what makes the world go around? The addiction to money? the desire to want more? I believe that we were put not his earth to leave it better than we found it and if money is overtaking that factor then what are we all doing here? I personally agree money is great, but you can't take it with you when you are gone. Even when people leave this earth the memories remain. Memories that you make with the people you love in everyday life. You can not make these memories if you work your fingers to the bone everyday to make money to save that you will never spend. Money is the source to most evil. People kill, sell drugs, and will do unforgivable things for money. But at the end of the day i think the real question is why does money mean so much to all of us?
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Sara is surely right about money being a drug because, besides taking the life experience of David Cain, the author of this article, we can perceive this type of behaviors towards money in everyday life. Even though people are working more than forty hours already, if they get an opportunity to earn extra hours at work, there is a big chance that they are going to take them, without stopping a second and think what else they can do, they don’t care anymore about some free time to spend with the family, friends, or simply to have enough sleep. I am sure that there is more people out there like David Cain, that agree that our life style has already been designed, but in my opinion, we need to do something about it.
ReplyDeleteSara made a good opening point, money is thought of as a drug, some say it is the most addicting. We live our life of a basis of needs, and wants. How we get those needs and wants is not accessible with out money. Money is not given to us unless we work so of course in our mindset the more we work the more we can spend. Thus leading to us buying name brands instead of cheaper as David Cain explained in his short story. We need to alter our mindset to see the that we do not actually need the top label brands but off brands, in which we could have more of.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sara because as David Cain says in the article, "We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing." Meaning were so greedy and all we care about is money to get more stuff we don't need. We buy something we desire but it doesn't end up filling us, leading to buying more things which also leads to working more hours and it just turns into a vicious cycle. Never satisfying the amount of money we get to get things we don't need.
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