Could the world today survive without money? I don’t mean get rid of cash and just shuffle numbers around from one account to another. What I am talking about is absolutely no money, at all, anywhere.
People are starving in the streets of England, it’s a fact. They have no money. To get money you need a job. To get a job you need an address and a previous job for a reference, also a clean criminal record. If you are living in the streets you have none of these and don’t stand a chance, you have to stay poor and on the streets. Turning to crime is an option unfortunately, but sometimes it is a steal or starve situation, and surely it is a bigger crime to starve a family?
On the other hand, the more money that you have, the more money you want. The larger the house, the larger the mortgage. Greed is relative to what you have, if you own a small house, the chances are that you will want a bigger one. If someone has a million pounds in the bank, they will only want two million, when the rest of us manage to get by with hardly a tenner in the bank if we are lucky, but then, we’ll only want twenty.
It escalates to the point when people with a lot of money, start to steal and penny pinch from those of us who have very little, to help themselves up the step ladder of success. When someone with a few quid rips off a person who has very little money it is called business. When a poor person rips of someone who is wealthy, it is called stealing. Bosses steal tips from their workforce all the time, thinking either they don’t deserve it or that they have already been paid so why should they be paid twice? This is classed as acceptable. If an employee was to take money from the till then that is stealing, and an offence. Doesn’t make sense. It has occurred to me that it is ok for someone who is rich to steal. Plus, someone with money is more likely to get away with it in court, because they can afford a barrister if they need one. It is down to greed at the end of the day, and greed breeds more greed.
The standard of living for the poorer folk of the country is lower, yet it costs us more money. We can’t afford a car, but we need one to get to work, so borrow some money from the bank and get the best one you can, thinking it will last longer. Then after paying back a massive amount of interest, the car has cost you possibly thousands of pounds more than what it would have done if you’d had the money in the bank and paid cash. If money didn’t have to be borrowed in the first place, it would have been a hell of a lot cheaper. Creditors count on us being poor so they can exploit us to the maximum and keep us wanting to borrow more. Ripping us off. Using us for income and exploiting the poor for their own selfish greed. It is unjust and unnecessary. Profiteering from the fact that you have no money, should be illegal.
The same goes for a country as a whole. If a poorer country has something that a wealthy country wants and could possibly profit from, then the richer country will invest in their armed forces and take it by force. In the end there has to be some kind of monetary profit in it otherwise, what is the point? Oil is the usual excuse, and is likely to be a huge factor in Iraq conflict.
I have heard wealthy people say “I’ve worked hard to get where I am today”. What a load of bollocks, we all work hard! It’s just that most of us have a conscience, and don’t agree with the ways in which money has to be ruthlessly extracted from others in a frenzied attack of greed.
Gibbo.
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