Would Life be better if everything was free?

United States
April 16, 2008 4:08pm CST
If everything was free in life would it be better? Or would it just be boring since everyone would have the same things?
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@jamie08 (430)
• United States
16 Apr 08
honestly i dont think life would be interesting if everything would be free. We wouldnt have to work for what we do. All we would really do is sit and do nothing. At least now you work for money so you can have goals and everything to get what you want/ like or whatever! But if you had everything it would just be pointless to live really. there would be absolutly nothing to do. Our economy well there wouldnt be one. everyone would be rolling around in ashton martins and everything. If everything was free in life then to me there would be no life.
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@jamie08 (430)
• United States
22 May 08
i doubt people will dance and sing and live in peace and all that. i mean honestly look at the world we live in. there is no peace
@Pitgull (1522)
• United States
17 Apr 08
If everything was free, we would have no way to learn appreciation. Everything would be handed to us. I do not think it would be boring if everyone had the same things, because then there would be no status issue. The problem lies in the fact that there will always be people who are willing to make a buck off of others, instead of by helping each other. When a society works together, for itself, it can only prosper. People do not need to be taken advantage of, for success. Quite the contrary. When we work against our own people, in a sense, we're working against ourselves because we help lead to the detriment of our own society...
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@sirnose (2436)
• United States
18 Apr 08
No, it wouldn't work it would only make people less creative and lazy.
@jamie08 (430)
• United States
22 May 08
i agree with you
@sexyjo (69)
• Trinidad And Tobago
17 Apr 08
definitely not,we are born with a purpose,and its to achieve greatness , people will become to complacent ,lazy, unambitious life would be to boring , it wouldn't be boring since people have the same thing, cause we live in a world where majority of people already share the same things, although there are benefits to every thing being free, this might solve poverty.find this is a good question it made me think
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@kezabelle (2974)
16 Apr 08
I dont know about boring but it wouldnt be a good place, you should work for things you want or need to have them just given to you teaches no morals nor does it build a strong character!
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• United States
16 Apr 08
Kind of along the same line as free, but I had a friend who was very very rich! So it was like everything to him was free. No challenge in his life. He was one of the most miserable people I have ever known! In his life he had nothing to look forward to! With me I have to work hard to achieve something that I want! If everything were free I think society would be in a world of hurt as a whole! Our world thrives on competition!
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@plumwish07 (4057)
• Indonesia
21 May 08
interesting discussion, dear. in my opinion, it will depend on the people their selves how to manage this kind condition. cause we should realize that beyond any circumstances, human being always have desire and passion to get more from what they already have in their life. as long as they can't manage it very well then i am sure life won't be too much better although everything is going to be free. what do you think?
@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
21 May 08
Well, that would be a drunkard's dream but it could really be cool. I would settle for not free but cheaper. Everything is too expensive these days and there are no indications that things will become better.
@sanzi1201 (644)
• China
21 May 08
I don't think so.If everything was free,the human would have no fight to work better.And everyone would be lazy.So,it's a bad mind.
@acevivx (1566)
• Philippines
22 May 08
There would be no challenge, no excitement, no sense of accomplishment, no ambition, no goals in life all of which adds up to BOREDOM not because everyone would have the same things because if you have no goals, no ambition it wouldn't matter if you had the same things but since we are human beings equipped with brains, we would always want to question to look for something new, to accomplish something different. However, if everything is free, what's the use of striving for anything? So let's be grateful that not everything nin life is free.
• China
25 Apr 08
I do not think this can be ture just like equel rights. People are strguling for this for thousands of years, but every person was born unequel. I think actually the unequealty push the world's development.Can you imagine if there is no tilt the river can flow?
@adoremay (2065)
• Philippines
25 Apr 08
if everything is for free. perhaps everything would be better. however we will lose the value of hardwork. the value of persistence, patience and motivation. we wouldn't be able to appreciate the essence of achieving something through our own efforts. the owning of things through our own sweat. it would also take away our pride as a individuals born to labor.
@jdyrj777 (6530)
• United States
25 Apr 08
I think it would be better. We would have everything we need. Things we want. Nobody would steal because they would have their own things. Money is the root of all evil. We would not be bored because of everything we have. There wouldn't be jealousy because whatever your neighbor has if you want you can go get it. Not every body would have the same things because not everybody wants the same things.
@lieanat (1137)
• Malaysia
22 May 08
Hi, chyeaballin, If everything is free, I think we will lose the sense of satisfaction when we bought our dream cars, house and etc without any cents!!! Dont you think so?
@munhozmib (3837)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
16 Apr 08
Hello, Chyeaballin! First of all, welcome to myLot! I can see that this was your first post in here. You'll find myLot to be such a great community! Now, life with everything free? It wouldn't be boring, you could have a lot of fun and all! You wouldn't need to be afraid of being robbed in the streets, because everything would be free! A perfect world, or something really close to that. People wouldn't have to rush to work, poluting the sky, because there would be no work! People would just help each other by volunteering. Everything would be just fine. No, life would not be boring without goals, because goals would still exist. You could try to learn how to play certain instruments, or learn how to sing, or how to dance... You could also try to conquer the heart of the girl you have been loving for such a long time! It would be just nice. Respectfully, Munhozmib.
@jamie08 (430)
• United States
16 Apr 08
honestly i dont think life would be interesting if everything would be free. We wouldnt have to work for what we do. All we would really do is sit and do nothing. At least now you work for money so you can have goals and everything to get what you want/ like or whatever! But if you had everything it would just be pointless to live really. there would be absolutly nothing to do. Our economy well there wouldnt be one. everyone would be rolling around in ashton martins and everything. If everything was free in life then to me there would be no life. thats why nothing comes free in life. It makes things interesting!