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03/06/11 02:44 PM
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> > I heard this recently (I am sure we have all heard it at one point). Just give > > everyone 1 million dollars and the world would be a better place. > > > > I will change it up a bit. Give everyone 1 billion (hey if we are giving out crazy > > amounts lets do it right). What would happen? > > > > I have some ideas. What do you you guys think would happen? > > > > Keep in mind whatever you do everyone would probably be doing about the same thing. > > > We live in a commercial capitalist society that educates us to associate the value of > life with how much money we have, the things we can buy, the places we live, the > clothes that we wear. They do this not because it enriches life in any significant > way, they do it because we all grow, programmed to consume and feed money back into > the machine. it preserves the status quo and allows the people and corps in control > to remain so. > Take away all of the smoke and mirrors, though and the value of life has very little > to do with money. Other than the security it brings in not having to worry about food > and shelter, virtually everything else we value is derived from what we are doing and > who we are doing it with. Some of my happiest memories go all the way back to when I > was a student, living on virtually f**k all and time spent with the wife and kids. > > Looking back on most of your happy memories will evoke situations you spent with > friends and family, children and the like. Lifes happiest memories are rarely allied > to material things because the reality is we need very few of them. Just a lot of > people are raised to associate material wealth with happiness, yet they largely get > more miserable the older they get without really knowing why. Its the journey that's > fun, if you're born into money and grow without anything to strive for, then material > wealth is exposed for the pointless, hollow and non life affirming thing that it is. > There is afterall only one direction left to go from the top of the mountain. > > If you woke tomorrow to find yourself the only soul left on earth, you could have > access to, and use absolutely anything you wanted, you could drive the best cars, > live in the finest houses, eat the best food, fill your life with every conceivable > luxury, what value would it have? how much would you enjoy yourself? how long could > you enjoy yourself for without anyone to share the experience with or view your > achievements? > > So it makes no difference if everyone is equally wealthy or equally poor. In terms of > life it has absolutely no meaning whatsoever, people who live and enjoy life will > still do so and those who don't still won't. Your access to 'stuff' is irrelevant.
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