Is money losing its control over us
February 28th 2008 02:42
For many years now I have harboured a desire not to allow money to control my life. Its grubby little paws are everywhere I go, in everything I do and dictates a fair amount of what lies ahead. Of course you can do things that don’t cost money, the beach is amazing for its naked beauty and emotional impact, but the reality is getting there costs money, living there costs money and eating there costs money.
An older brother told me once to remember money is just a facility to make things happen, it should be used accordingly. Decoding this as pre-teen took a few years but he was spot on and that describes life right now.
But that’s not the question, today people spend big on anything and everything, cars, houses, TVs you name it, its on the list. If we look beyond the social need to be a leader and the emotional support shopping provides, do we see a general lack of respect for money these days?
Do we see the idea that people have no intention of paying back the money, living large whilst they can because they know the worst that can happen is they’ll be made bankrupt. How bad is that, you see all the entrepreneurs do it, superstars and very important people all seem to come out smelling of roses and lets face it if that happens you don’t have to pay it back anyway.
Business seems to be happy to keep collecting the money from people, after all increases in company profits help justify the risks of loss. Its deeper than that of course, if these companies do fail who gets trampled, who is business anyway, the big companies are owned by the public whether through their super funds or personally and so its these people that lose out. If you not spending and living the high life whilst you can, you must be helplessly waiting to be trampled.
that’s just one of my problems with Karma but that’s another story !
Throw in the blunt instrument of interest rate rises the government likes to use to keep us in check and you start to wonder whether money is something that you need in you life. Have we taught our kids too well, the scales of risk seem to favor the live for now whatever the cost lifestyle and those of us who don’t want that will be the ones that end up paying.
An older brother told me once to remember money is just a facility to make things happen, it should be used accordingly. Decoding this as pre-teen took a few years but he was spot on and that describes life right now.
But that’s not the question, today people spend big on anything and everything, cars, houses, TVs you name it, its on the list. If we look beyond the social need to be a leader and the emotional support shopping provides, do we see a general lack of respect for money these days?
Do we see the idea that people have no intention of paying back the money, living large whilst they can because they know the worst that can happen is they’ll be made bankrupt. How bad is that, you see all the entrepreneurs do it, superstars and very important people all seem to come out smelling of roses and lets face it if that happens you don’t have to pay it back anyway.
Business seems to be happy to keep collecting the money from people, after all increases in company profits help justify the risks of loss. Its deeper than that of course, if these companies do fail who gets trampled, who is business anyway, the big companies are owned by the public whether through their super funds or personally and so its these people that lose out. If you not spending and living the high life whilst you can, you must be helplessly waiting to be trampled.
that’s just one of my problems with Karma but that’s another story !
Throw in the blunt instrument of interest rate rises the government likes to use to keep us in check and you start to wonder whether money is something that you need in you life. Have we taught our kids too well, the scales of risk seem to favor the live for now whatever the cost lifestyle and those of us who don’t want that will be the ones that end up paying.
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Al Brunswick
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