Plentiful_Despair
Experienced
- Aug 23, 2024
- 261
Blurry_Buildings
Just Existing
- Sep 27, 2023
- 543
Power/ influence.
Money itself is a form of power and can be used to buy more power, status, and influence for oneself, but there is also a limit. Elon Musk, despite his massive amounts of wealth, will never be able to bring himself to the same good reputation as bill gates or warren buffet, simply because no matter what there will be too many people who will remember the actions he has already taken that they consider to be idiotic, dangerous, or even evil.
Likewise, when they step into a small town diner, no billionaire will ever be able to buy the same kind of near universal fame and love in the hearts of the people that a disabled war veteran, a firefighter, or an olympic athlete could command. Billionaires usually can manipulate the law freely when dealing with corporate regulations, foreign policy, most domestic policy and workers rights, but they can't touch rights that the people have decided (actually decided) they deserve. (I was going to say traditions but then I remembered modern santa claus is a coca-cola advertisement lol)
I think love is similar. Money can make opportunities for people to love someone platonically or romantically, but are the people in love with the billionaire or are they subconsciously in love with the money?
Money itself is a form of power and can be used to buy more power, status, and influence for oneself, but there is also a limit. Elon Musk, despite his massive amounts of wealth, will never be able to bring himself to the same good reputation as bill gates or warren buffet, simply because no matter what there will be too many people who will remember the actions he has already taken that they consider to be idiotic, dangerous, or even evil.
Likewise, when they step into a small town diner, no billionaire will ever be able to buy the same kind of near universal fame and love in the hearts of the people that a disabled war veteran, a firefighter, or an olympic athlete could command. Billionaires usually can manipulate the law freely when dealing with corporate regulations, foreign policy, most domestic policy and workers rights, but they can't touch rights that the people have decided (actually decided) they deserve. (I was going to say traditions but then I remembered modern santa claus is a coca-cola advertisement lol)
I think love is similar. Money can make opportunities for people to love someone platonically or romantically, but are the people in love with the billionaire or are they subconsciously in love with the money?
nembutal
everything will be okay in the end
- Jul 14, 2022
- 337
nothing. the living can buy illusions of everything that you've listed, freedom, love, health, for wads of cash.
hawkshorizon
Member
- Aug 23, 2023
- 93
Money is a strange animal. It takes on my guizes, and is chameleon like in that it can shift form over time.
Money's a language. It's absence or abundance signifies how you are organized in the world and how you move around it (or not).
Money can be love, but more often it is fear. Not always but more commonly, it's absence generates anger and longing; it's abundance greater expansion and often, ironically, isolation.
And money is, of course, a weapon. It's granting or restricting is the stick that drives the herd here and there. The same goes for nations as for people.
It is better to have money; I think most people would agree with that sentiment. The trick comes when you have it; who are you going to be?
Money is a strange animal indeed.
Money's a language. It's absence or abundance signifies how you are organized in the world and how you move around it (or not).
Money can be love, but more often it is fear. Not always but more commonly, it's absence generates anger and longing; it's abundance greater expansion and often, ironically, isolation.
And money is, of course, a weapon. It's granting or restricting is the stick that drives the herd here and there. The same goes for nations as for people.
It is better to have money; I think most people would agree with that sentiment. The trick comes when you have it; who are you going to be?
Money is a strange animal indeed.
locked*n*loaded
Archangel
- Apr 15, 2022
- 9,215
Misanthrope0000
Misanthrope
- Sep 8, 2024
- 94
As a poor person stuck in a third world country, nothing is above money.
Financially stable people say that there's things about money, but when you actually have no money, or lack money you'll see how important money is, you can choose love, freedom etc over being RICH, but you can't choose it over money as a whole
Being free, having a lover, being religious etc won't give you a house, won't pay your bills, won't feed you, won't let you travel etc
Without money you survive like an animal..
Financially stable people say that there's things about money, but when you actually have no money, or lack money you'll see how important money is, you can choose love, freedom etc over being RICH, but you can't choose it over money as a whole
Being free, having a lover, being religious etc won't give you a house, won't pay your bills, won't feed you, won't let you travel etc
Without money you survive like an animal..
-nobodyknows-
I will face my fate.
- Jun 16, 2024
- 794
