I was reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and saw some pretty interesting stuff. There is a part around page 415 0r so where the characters are at a party and some schmucks over heard a wealthy man talking and said to their friends that we need not pay much attention to him, he comes from money and we all know that money is the root of all evil... The man then turns and addresses them, and gave what I think is the best defense for money, morals and capitalism I have ever heard or read. Basically he said that money is a claim on human effort and to get a person to give you their effort, ie. service or product you either give value for value (money) you take it by the whip (slavery) by the gun (rob/steal) or by legal means (taxes/other so called legal ways to get our money) or mooch (welfare/begging on the streets). And on the same line of thinking, the only way to get money is to give value, or the whip, gun or mooch! Thats really it, so if you get anything of value and you didn't pay for it than how did you get it? and if money is the root of all evil than how else does one get anything of value in there lives... speaking financially I know there are plenty of other values out there.
So is it the love of money?
To love something is to know it and appreciate its "core" what it really is right? so if money is the primary means of exchange between men and women and the only way to get and actually earn it is by bringing some kind of value, something good in other words than how is that evil? I'm under the impression that it is the ignorance of money that is the root of all evil.
Anyhow I just had it on my mind.
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Jonah Gregg
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