Good Money - Bad Money - Curse Or Blessing?

Roage wrote in its comment - money has no lawful value, so we cannot lawful own property when we use it in trade, and it was the question whether we create victims if we continue the fraud ... (you can read the full comment at the post "Getting rich isn't that easy).

First of all I want to agree - initially there were everything for everyone on this earth. Each property, each value was conquered from someone sometimes without any right to do so, except the law of the jungle. On the other hand, from the very beginning there was the need to arrange things, to structure the coexistence in every herd animal.

And we are still herd animals, perhaps a little bit more intelligent, more educated, with a conscious mind, and other differences to other creatures, but we are still herd animals following our instincts. We based our coexistence with other human beings on certain laws and systems. The caveman hunted, and they had to do it, every day. When the caveman was a successful hunter, the family survived. When he was not successful - the family died. It was that easy.

Later, they developed strategies to hunt together and live together. They learned to survive as a group, and then they learned about synergies - not everyone was a good hunter, but perhaps could make bread, or weapons, so he worked for the group according to his talents. That fact brought great development to manhood, but also new problems.

People specialized increasingly. More and more new areas of work arose, and it became increasingly different to make a living, because not every product or service was needed every time. And there was no opportunity to maintain values. So you could feed yourself and your family as long your product or service was on demand.

So people started to trade and exchange products and services against other things they needed to help them survive. Yet, not all products and services had the same value, and not all products could be traded equally easy, and the most important reason for problems - mostly the guy who wanted your product had nothing in his hands, that was of value for you. So you had to swap many times until you received the wanted product or service, if you got it at all.

So people invented something artificial. Some kind of artificial value, which everyone can use to barter products and services against it. Rare stones, gold, silver, bronze - and much later coins of different value. And it was another milestone to improve and facilitate the life of the people. But again - new problems came with the new system.

People started to divide - according to there possessions - and they started to hoard coins and gold, and by owning this things, they became mighty and influential. But it was quite easy to steal it - and there was no safe place for the possessions.

To cut a long story short - people invented bank systems and paper money - and much later electronic money that doesn't exist at all. Actually it has no real value, except of the value we agree to give it. We allow banks to deal with money - ten times the value of the real deposits - that means - only ten percent of the money in circulation is real. 90 percent of the money in circulation is without any valuable counterpart.

So money is still something artificial - valuable as long as we accept the value in it. It is an agreement between people, entirely subjective and it is neither good nor bad - it is a tool to organize an increasingly complex world. Do we create victims with this system? Winners and losers? Are we attracting slavery through the system, like Roage wrote?

Probably yes - but would we avoid those things by staying poor, or by subverting the system? I personally don't believe it. If sometimes someone suggests a real alternative, why not - but until now I didn't find one. Most ideas are not feasible or would catapult us back into the stone age.

In my opinion - if you want to change a system, you have to be part of it. If you want to change the world, you have to change the system, if you want to change the system you have to change your society, if you want to change your society you have to change yourself. Money and especially richness is a tool to do so. A lot of good things happen, because a lot of money is concentrated in the hands of single persons. And a lot of damage is done, because a lot of money is concentrated in the hands of single persons.

So it is not the syscience of getting rich, change your life, change your thoughts, change your thoughts change your life, positive results, positive thinkingstem and not the money, that makes the difference. It's always the people who makes the difference. Getting rich, and I mean getting rich in every sense of a living, gives you the opportunity to influence the world, or at least a small part of it. It frees you from slavery, without bringing anyone else into slavery. It depends on you - Getting rich through fraud and robbery, through exploitation and murder, or getting rich by becoming a creator, helping other people to live a better life or finding an existence, by helping others to grow, by helping the society to become more wealthy and comfortable etc. - That makes a huge difference - in your life and in the life of other people around the world.

So getting rich isn't defined as the current fraud of bank managers or greedy CEO's of big companies - it is defined by every single person in his or her very own sense. You define what it means to be wealthy - for your own realm. In this sense it is almost our duty to get rich and get the opportunity to influence the system in a positive manner.
What do you think? What are your beliefs about money and the financial system we are involved in?

By: Gerd Ziegler

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