Do you believe that money is a good thing, or bad thing?

India
March 4, 2010 11:16pm CST
I was just talking to some friends about this, got mixed answers, and wanted to bring it up to the forums. When I said money, I mean having a currency in general Do you think money/currency is a good or bad thing? I am in the middle, I mean if it wasn't for money, people wouldn't make things for free, we wouldn't have half the things we would now, we would have to make everything ourselves and live in a ghetto type world with many things undiscovered or made. On the other hand, if it wasn't for money, there wouldn't be as many wars as we have now, people wouldn't have to work and waste their life doing something they might not enjoy than just enjoying the world as it is, and the world would be less polluted from all the factories making random crap for money. What do you think?
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@dhonitea (157)
• Indonesia
5 Mar 10
I think money is everything. All the people life in the world need some money. One side money is a good thing but the other side money is bad thing. Why ? Because by money, some one can be make a crime to getting much money.
• India
10 Mar 10
money is a necessary evil.
@zhcy888 (256)
• China
5 Mar 10
It's not absolutely, if there is no money, we can't transact with each other, we can't buy what we want, we don't know the exact value of goods, in our daily life, it's indispensable. But as the money, most of people become snobbish, someone even become bad people because of money, it usually lead to some crime rate. So there is not an absolutely answer, we need consider of initial point.
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• India
10 Mar 10
Like all things If its used correctly Then there is no problems
• Philippines
5 Mar 10
good. money is our ways and means in dealing with our physical needs. but everything that is too much is bad. i am not saying that rich people got too much money is bad, but the way they use money. what i mean is, some are greedy in money. everything have a price but too much is too much. we work for money to live decently.but don't make money work for bad things. there are benefits of having money and negative too. we have to share what we have. money or whatever it is. as long as we use it for the good of others.
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• India
10 Mar 10
Neither, nor. Some people take it seriously almost to the point of it being a religion and others disdain it. It depends on how you feel about it. For me...it is an essential in today's world, but not neccessarily taking over my life. If I decided it was an evil thing then I would have to go live in the woods and live the rest of my life as a hermit.
@kayebee (55)
• Philippines
5 Mar 10
Money is generally a good thing. It becomes bad when people use it a bad way. Money teaches us to work harder so we could get what we want or need. It becomes bad when it is our only priority, to enrich ourselves more and more even if we have enough, which becomes greed and greed is one of the seven deadly sins.
@abhaijith (2963)
• India
5 Mar 10
Yeah, Very Good point you said, The way of using money determines whether its Good or Bad. Good Day Friend.
@humairaku (2038)
• Indonesia
5 Mar 10
I think money is just like another tools. so it absolutely depends on someone who use that tool. they want it for good purpose or the bad one. money is good thing of course, if we use it for good purposes, such as spending to buy daily needs, pay school fee or to be saved in a bank as an asset. but of course money could be a bad thing if we use it for bad purpose such as use money as boodle or gratification so we can reach our goal easily, pay someone to kill people we don't like (LOL), etc. so money is only a tool. we the ones who make it good or bad.
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• India
5 Mar 10
Yes money is good and bad too because if we don't have money then we cannot survive and bad because through money some of the people do many crime and in my point of view i think money is good and bad too.
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• India
10 Mar 10
yes , i agree with you but if you have one choice that money is good or bad , which one will you choose. Difficult question , i know... :)
@rosekiss (30380)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 Mar 10
I think it can be both. We do need money in this life to survive since things cost so much more than they used to. It can be a bad thing if we don't know how to manage it and throw it away on things that are frivolous and not erally needed. That is the society now though, as a lot of people will buy something and worry about paying for it later. That can lead to a lot of problems, as I know, as it has happened to me. I would buy things and not worry about paying for them later, well, that was the wrong way to think as I got myself in deep trouble, and just couldn't get myself out of it, but now that i have, I don't intend to get into that mess again. I almost had both my credit cards maxed out, and I was sinking trying to pay a little bit each moth, and not making any headway. I would trty to pay more than the minimum if I could, but most the time, that was even hard to do. I did manage to pay something each month, but I knew the way things were going, it would be years before I had them paid off, and in that time, I would end up paying a heck of a lot more than what I started with. I am so happy now that I have htem paid off, and you can bet your life, I iwll never ever do that again. I hope not to use my credit cards if at all possible, of if I do,to pay the balance each month, so I don't get muself into that pickle again. Life is so much better now, as I have more I can use but won't spend it on the wrong thngs or in the wrong way. That is where having money can be a bad thing. I hope that no one gets in the situation I was in, as it was no fun, and I was depressed most of the time. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.
@ghieptc (2522)
• Philippines
6 Mar 10
I perfectly agreed with you, And basically we all knew that money is necessary to buy things that we need to live like food, water, etc. However, some people says that money is like an evil who control over us and we forgot some things that are important because of money. Some became greedy and wants to earn more because of their negative intentions or maybe they felt insecure and jealous to people who are richer than them.
@machivado (528)
• Indonesia
6 Mar 10
I still believe money makes world keep spinning. I hate to admit it though..but we are going nowhere without money. It's just a sad truth about life and I never have respect for someone who put money first above else.
• China
6 Mar 10
woo,it is greatful topics,money is nesscity in our life,everybody could't without it,honestly,money can be good thing or bad thing,when i was child,my family is very poor,so my father decide to leave our village to find other way he could feed all of us.our life was so difficult when we arrive other place where there were had no relations.with other parents gived their child pin money,but my and my brother only had money in support of our school expenses,well,at that environment,money is so important to us.but now,we are have money even though it not much,but the relation between our ralatives is so bad,for either side ,money is good thing with which we can consume anything we need,like beautiful clothes,shoes,it can meet our spiritual demands and material need.but vice versa.
• Indonesia
5 Mar 10
Dear Harjotdoad, For me, money is good thing. We can get everything with it.
@ivelinr (104)
• Bulgaria
5 Mar 10
If you have enough money, you have financial independence! You can do whatever you want. You can work something that you love to do. You can help someone else. The choice is yours, to be good or bad. But the question is: How much is enough?
@fred11 (62)
5 Mar 10
well for me having money is a good thing because you can buy the things you need in life it self. Money is a powerful object. It even has the power to control who has it. It is the source of greed. Once the money that you have on hand manages to control to in every manner. Now that is bad. It s tempting to do things with money is the one thing that we can not do with out
• Singapore
5 Mar 10
money is a good thing if you know how to use your money then!Money somehow makes our life better,we can buy things we want,we can go where we want,we can do what we want with it and we can help others who need our help if we have money...
@fianne (1057)
• United States
5 Mar 10
money is GOOD! it helps us live and whatever we are now is because money helped us become what we are. I mean money was used to buy clothes to cover us, buy food to build our body and it gives us the nutrition we need. money os never BAD! why? because they have no minds, they can't do anything, they are just money needed to be used. what people makes money bad per se, is how they handle the money. we all need money to help us live by. but people at times are greedy and just needs more money so desperately they do things to have it andeven more of t. they can get money by working legally and not hurting anyone but others don't. so what did the money do to think that it is bad? nothing. just people handling it makes it.
@abhaijith (2963)
• India
5 Mar 10
Hi Friend, Money is definitely a good thing,at a particular limit.We need money to live ,i think its not good when it becomes more than enough.That may make people mad.
@jambi462 (4576)
• United States
5 Mar 10
I think that money had great potential when it came to be and also seemed like it would be great but as our population gets bigger you can tell that the system isn't working quite as well as we had hoped for everybody. The problem with the money system is there's not a whole lot of balance of money. There are people that have a lot of it and people that have none at all. I think the money system could be better and could possibly be a great system if we could somehow figure out a way to regulate it a little better. I just wish that money didn't control our lives so much as it does now. I also don't think that people should have to pay for food because you see so much of it in grocery stores and things.
@akuler (3531)
• Malaysia
5 Mar 10
Hi Harjotdoad, It is not the money that make thing good or bad. It is us to determine it in the way we used it. If we used it for a good course then the money is a good thing like buy foods, cloths, or house. Even if we buy a weapons, it might be a good money depend on how we want to use the weapons, to depend ourselves or to attack someone else. Without the money, we will be back to the stone age where everything is trade by barber system. Even the stone age people have their own money.
• United States
5 Mar 10
i think that is true. that is a good question. i think it would probably be better if we all didnt need money. but also money is a good thing to have we probably all wouldnt be going anywhere without it. i am in the middle aswell. it is hard to choose.
5 Mar 10
Many says money moves...and for me its true...You can do many things if you have lots of money. Things that makes you happy and satisfied you... As a mature person also,you really have to know your limitations...Not just throw it away without any purpose... Be responsible with your acts to justify the use of your money... Its up to you if will be blind with the money and that makes it bad...