divers

money

Can someone tell me why we weigh everything in money? Why is it the ultimate meassurement of our socitey, of our world?

We talk and think about it on a daily basis.

How much costs that sandwich? How much do you get paid? Are you going to be able to pay the rent? Can I go on that vacation? Do I have money left to spend this month? When is my paycheck coming? Can you lend me some money today? I am going to pay you back.

The subject of everything is money. Society does not exist without money. The society does not work without money. Because there doesn’t seem anything else there is to pay, to reward the people. Without it, we can’t do anything. We need it.

To go somewhere, by car or by train or by bus, that doesn’t matter. You can’t eat anything without it. You have to buy it, doesn’t matter if you do that in a restaurant or a market or a little shop. You can’t live comfortably without it. You have to pay money to buy a bed, a cuboard, a kitchen, a table. You have to pay for water and electricity. You can’t live without it.

It is the main medium of exchange of our era.

But it wasn’t always like that. In the times of my grandfather, who worked as a construction worker, he exchanged his service for the service of another. That was simple and effective. But it doen't to work anymore now. Now, everything has to have a price.

It seems that we as humans, as beings are not enough. Even we have to be weighed in money, our worth is based on money.

And I feel like that destroys. Humans, friendships, relationsships, families, groups, society. I feel like we have to reduce that thinking in money and go back to rewarding us with something else except money, in friendship, in helping each other, in love, in understanding each other. We have to learn to occasionally reward ourselves with something different than money.