It starts very early when we as children start learning about the things money can do. It's like the Kalpataru, a mythological heavenly wish fulfilling tree that manifests anything you desire.
From the chocolate that you fantasize about in your dreams to the nicest apparel.
You see your parents working hard to earn and preserve this mysterious thing if you are from a poor or middle class family. For them it brings security from the travails that an unpredictable life can bring and a corpus to take care of the fundamentals of life like hunger, education and health that the developed world gets for granted from the state. If you are lucky to be born into a rich family you see the power it wields, the respect it commands for your family.
So one starts to learn the importance of money very early in life and it is indeed important in this world where there is no love or compassion. All of us are insecure and money brings a feeling of security. So one starts to accumulate it by various means. There are those who want to live rich and spend it to gain the pleasures that the world has to offer and those who hoard it to feel more secure and those that give it away as charity.
It would be great to have an Utopian society where people have love and compassion foe each other and all needs of everyone is taken care of. Then we don't need to hoard, spend or earn money. But we are not that, we are greedy, selfish, corrupt and to survive in this society one needs money. Now the question arises for someone who observes all this mess, how should one deal with money? How much should one spend, hoard, donate? Also how much should one earn and earn at what cost.
From the chocolate that you fantasize about in your dreams to the nicest apparel.
You see your parents working hard to earn and preserve this mysterious thing if you are from a poor or middle class family. For them it brings security from the travails that an unpredictable life can bring and a corpus to take care of the fundamentals of life like hunger, education and health that the developed world gets for granted from the state. If you are lucky to be born into a rich family you see the power it wields, the respect it commands for your family.
So one starts to learn the importance of money very early in life and it is indeed important in this world where there is no love or compassion. All of us are insecure and money brings a feeling of security. So one starts to accumulate it by various means. There are those who want to live rich and spend it to gain the pleasures that the world has to offer and those who hoard it to feel more secure and those that give it away as charity.
It would be great to have an Utopian society where people have love and compassion foe each other and all needs of everyone is taken care of. Then we don't need to hoard, spend or earn money. But we are not that, we are greedy, selfish, corrupt and to survive in this society one needs money. Now the question arises for someone who observes all this mess, how should one deal with money? How much should one spend, hoard, donate? Also how much should one earn and earn at what cost.
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