Money: What is Money?

Think of all the amazing things you can do with billions of dollars accessible to you at any time. The dream house, the dream car, the dream vacation or the dream anything all of a sudden stops becoming a dream and turns into reality once you have money. One can also blame money for all of the hardships in one’s life and for all the hardships in the world today. So what is the very idea of money that holds such a large portion of our emotional well being? What is this thing called money, why do we have it and what is its TRUE purpose?

Why Do We Even Have Money?

To answer this question, we need to examine the reason why there is money to begin with. In this example, say you have a son that is about to die if he doesn’t receive medical treatment, the series of events that would happen would be as follows:

Son wants to live -> Doctor expresses that they can fulfill the son’s want to live ->Son allows the doctor to fulfill the son’s want to live by performing a medical treatment -> Son or Parent thanks the doctor for fulfilling their want by either bartering or giving them money

The interesting question here is why does the Son or Parent want to thank the doctor by giving the doctor something? Is it not to just say thank you for saving his son’s life? We’d say so. So the reason why people give money is to say thank you to the person who fulfill’s their want. So the real reason for money is to allow someone to say thanks to another person for going out of their way to help them get what they want.

If the reason for money is to say thanks, then it would be easy to state that the flow of money to one person is happening because they are doing things to give lots of people what they want and in return those people are sending that person money, or thanks. So rich people are rich because they are giving more people what they want then they have taken from the world. Additionally, poor people are poor because they are giving less to people then they have taken back from the world.

The best example for this is Bill Gates. Bill Gates created a software system that helps millions of people all over the world. In fact, his invention is credited with starting an entire industry that ended up creating millions of jobs all of the world. Since most people have Bill Gates to thank for their job, they thank the man by buying his product. The more people he helped, the richer he became and now he is the richest man in the world.

Summary

So money is just thanking someone for giving you what you want. Please note, that thanks is just appreciation and we found out in the what is love post that love is just appreciation as well. So money and love have the same intention.