[Anima Mundi]

It's necessary to get the things I need (food, shelter) and want. The only thing I hate about it is having to earn it.

[AlfredSchnittke]

Money is not happiness, but it definitely does buy happiness.

The saying to the contrary is mainly a way to make everyone that lacks it feel better about their lack.

[vampyroteuthis]

Steal someone's wallet.

[zibber]

	Originally Posted by Marcia To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Yeah but people have the option of forming/joining communes. Nothing is stopping them. And some people do. I would certainly join a commune if I had no land and no food, rather than go work for some asshole. The option exists.

Wouldn't that be nice.

Which planet is that?

[Thinktress]

"How do you view money?"

Lately, from a distance.

[Selene]

My current views on money may be summed up by this
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Now get the fuck off my lawn!!!
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[Marcus Septim]

as a cursed necesity

[stealthfighter]

A reminder of society's power over individuals.

[hi5yourface]

I view the people who have a lot of it with general distrust

[stoopidkitty]

Currently I define money as the thing that separates me from a fat sack of chronic.

[savior]

	Originally Posted by AlfredSchnittke To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Money is not happiness, but it definitely does buy happiness. The saying to the contrary is mainly a way to make everyone that lacks it feel better about their lack.

Have to disagree with you here. Money buys creature comforts. And being comfortable is a very good way to be NOT unhappy. Happiness is a state of mind, it is a choice. My 2c.

[Oros Ull]

I work and get just enough to pay for a home, food and car. I wouldn’t even need it for that if I could find some free land to live on. I prefer to keep things as minimalistic as I can and am happiest when at I’m able to live naturally with only the basics being produced by my own hands. Someday I would like to carve a home into a Cliffside or something.

I’ve been rich before and I hated it. I did the yacht rides and expensive trips, met all kinds of super-rich and sophisticated people, went to crazy parties, took part in all kinds of things balh balh blah. It’s all bullshit though. Fake people, fake objectives, fake lifestyle, It was so nihilistic a way of living all I could do was detest myself for accepting it. So I stopped and now I’m a bum… lol

If I ever come into some real money of my own I imagine I will secure enough to start a family and what have you but for the most part I would use it to help people out and stuff, although I would probably find my own way of doing that as most charities can’t be trusted.

Bottom line is I think it’s a tool with a lot of potential, but dedicating yourself to the pursuit of accumulating it is one filled with sin. Perhaps if the paradigm changed where it wasn’t a tool for mass manipulation I wouldn’t be so callous about it. But I do not trust the infrastructure or the people at its source or most anyone who is concerned with it beyond necessity. In theory I stand by it, could a balanced system be offered where it was used as a tally for resource rather than a means of leverage then it would be fine.

But in any case I prefer to stick to what I can create on my own and I don’t like being pampered with petty creature comforts and what have you so money means little to me beyond its need for social interaction.

[Coralaisly]

A necessary evil.

I have things I want to do in life, and in order to do those things, I need money. I work for this money, and save up every dime I can in the mean time for the future to cover un-forseen circumstances.

It's also something that allows me to sleep easy knowing that if an unexpected bill springs up, I can handle it. I fear being in debt. The simple thought of having bitten off more than I can chew scares me and makes me extremely careful about what responsibilities I take on. I always have the money in the bank before pulling the credit card out, and pay off every cent by the end of the month. I'm against the idea of paying interest, and refuse to if it can at all be helped.

Any time I'm to buy something that will require me to carry a balance (which is extremely rare), I go in knowing exactly to the penny how much I will have to pay per month to pay it off at least 1-3 months early, if not more, and stick rigidly to that schedule.

Money for me is a means to an end. It's a force that can either be harnessed to bring the user success or handled poorly, in which case it will cause nothing but greif. I'm not fond of it, I wish that it weren't needed, but regardless, I work hard for what I have, and use it to take care of myself and occasionally those I love, when they really need it. It keeps a roof over my head, a yard under my dog's paws and food in her bowl.

It just is what it is.

[PetarI]

Serbian money is useless and that's how i see it :D

[deconspire]

Slavery.

[imperio]

Power of control. I can focus on what I want. Do so much more in life.

[Saggita]

It something I can buy things with. And I like to have a lot of it. I'm a bit greedy, perhaps.

[IngsocDisciple]

Tosh

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	Originally Posted by Grimstad To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a wave runner. And who's not happy riding a waverunner? (Bill Engval (I think))

That was Tosh

[Faux hawk]

Pretty paper we all decided was important. Now we are configuring it into plastic that relates to a number that symbolizes the previously symbolic paper. I'd prefer to trade yams. It's a completely ridiculous social construct that was supposed to make things easier, but has instead separated us from one another. It's just paper. We make a big deal out of paper! Hell, we even kill for it. The stupidest shit I've ever seen.

[StripeDog]

You don't need to wish for that. I've been doing just that for a decade.

For those who denounce capital and attempt to justify their continued use of it speak nothing. For those who accept it, are beyond hope.

The only ones who can truly denounce it, are those who have lost all value of it, and no longer use it.

[Jemster]

Something I'm sorely lacking at the moment...

[peppersasen]

money buys you privacy, safety/security, and access. ¥€$!

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i just want the freedom it gives you. so i can be a de facto adult already.

[La Comtesse]

In large enough quantities, a source of corruption.

[PlungingHornets]

I can tell you that anybody who's said something along the lines of "money isn't everything" to me hasn't worked for a living.

It's pretty fucking important. Living from paycheck to paycheck limits your options and stresses you out.

[Samson86]

as a goal post the more i make the more goals i have achieved...nothing more nothing less