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CG Main => Debate Forum => Topic started by: Atom on January 27, 2011, 12:37:38 AM
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Just think about it. I think everything is built around money and that yes we are slaves to money, money being the root to all evil. The J.F.K assassination being one example.
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"Are we slaves to money?"
Yes.
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I like things.
Things cost money.
Need money to buy things.
I like money.
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I prefer to see it as your all my salves. And you provide me with money.
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I AM NO SALVE.
Also, money makes the world go round.
There is no more efficient system of trading. If you look at it from a historical standpoint, bartering failed and physical coercion incited riots.
There is no better motivation, than wealth. Financial incentives are what drives most people, as many are not genuinely interested in the betterment of society / themselves.
This is my objective side, saying yes; we are slaves to money.
QUESTION: How is the J.F.K assassination related to money? I'm sure Lee Harvey Oswald was no pecuniary reward/compensation for his deplorable act.
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QUESTION: How is the J.F.K assassination related to money? I'm sure Lee Harvey Oswald was no pecuniary reward/compensation for his deplorable act.
There's much more to the J.F.K assassination than you think. Try and research about it.
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Resources make money, Money makes resources... It's just a global understanding You need money to make money, and once you get some Money you can't help to want more... final answer
"Are we slaves to money"
Yes...
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I think everything is built around money and that yes we are slaves to money, money being the root to all evil.
I believe that you really need to read this extract from Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shurgged:
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/economics/money/1826-francisco-s-money-speech.html (http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/economics/money/1826-francisco-s-money-speech.html)
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I prefer to see it as your all my salves. And you provide me with money.
But Inject, you're a slave to Miley Cyrus, and she has lots of money, therefore, slave to money.
ironymeter
I used the irony meter because this is highly ironic. smug
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I'd have to disagree and say man, who harbors greed, is more evil than money. Money wasn't the issue. Actually it was Ford motors which begot this chain of greed we live in today. Cars were supposed to run off of alcohol. Oil would bring in more money so it was used as a fuel source.
Thanks to Ford motors' display of greed, social interaction between strangers doesn't happen as often as it used to. You used to be able to go to your mechanic and would have a conversation with them, now all they care about is your money and would rather skip the social interaction just to do their job.
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I'd have to disagree and say man, who harbors greed, is more evil than money. Money wasn't the issue. Actually it was Ford motors which begot this chain of greed we live in today. Cars were supposed to run off of alcohol. Oil would bring in more money so it was used as a fuel source.
Thanks to Ford motors' display of greed, social interaction between strangers doesn't happen as often as it used to. You used to be able to go to your mechanic and would have a conversation with them, now all they care about is your money and would rather skip the social interaction just to do their job.
Are you seriously blaming the lack of man to man interaction in nowadays society to the rational decision of a single man?
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I think everything is built around money and that yes we are slaves to money, money being the root to all evil.
I believe that you really need to read this extract from Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shurgged:
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/economics/money/1826-francisco-s-money-speech.html (http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/economics/money/1826-francisco-s-money-speech.html)
hum...interesting.
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QUESTION: How is the J.F.K assassination related to money? I'm sure Lee Harvey Oswald was no pecuniary reward/compensation for his deplorable act.
There's much more to the J.F.K assassination than you think. Try and research about it.
I think you're the one that needs to do some research, you damned conspiracist.
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QUESTION: How is the J.F.K assassination related to money? I'm sure Lee Harvey Oswald was no pecuniary reward/compensation for his deplorable act.
There's much more to the J.F.K assassination than you think. Try and research about it.
I think you're the one that needs to do some research, you damned conspiracist.
What do you mean by conspiracist? There facts and proof. I take it you are .... 13 years old?
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QUESTION: How is the J.F.K assassination related to money? I'm sure Lee Harvey Oswald was no pecuniary reward/compensation for his deplorable act.
There's much more to the J.F.K assassination than you think. Try and research about it.
I think you're the one that needs to do some research, you damned conspiracist.
What do you mean by conspiracist? There facts and proof. I take it you are .... 13 years old?
To assume my age after not knowing what "conspiracist" means.
You are uneducated.
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We're not slaves to money, but we're slaves to self-interest, which often manifests itself through greed. Money's just the vehicle.
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We're not slaves to money, but we're slaves to self-interest, which often manifests itself through greed. Money's just the vehicle.
And rational self-interest is the only way to truly live.
If anybody else approaches you saying otherwise, run for you life.
What do you mean by conspiracist? There facts and proof. I take it you are .... 13 years old?
To assume that his response has a direct connection with his hypothetical age is not the best approach. I've said it before, age is not a sign of intelligence or maturity.
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And rational self-interest is the only way to truly live.
Well, yeah. Calling us "slaves to self-interest" does self-interest a huge injustice.
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I spend alot of my week trying to obtain money, I am money's bitch
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I would say yes, because of how the money system works(in the U.S. at least, can't speak for those in other countries). The entire Federal Reserve system is based around creating debt, and the only way to get out of debt is to create more debt which you shove on some one else.
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Without money, we'd be bartering like barbarians.
Yes, wealth promotes greed, although we'd be a very primitive race if we didn't use this system of value. (Unless of course, the economic principles practiced in the Star Trek universe came into effect; which involves almost universally ratified socialism)
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I'm not saying to do away with money, I'm saying that the money system is flawed. We no longer have the gold standard, so our money has no real worth, the only worth it has is the worth we say it has.
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Money keeps the whole system running. Just sayin'.
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"I AM NO SALVE." Correct, Ghast, you are no salve.
Do not attack the person arguing. It merely proves you cannot counter argue their point, or shows a lack of getting your point across.
I think it wise all posting here remember this.
Anyway, there is a concern of "value" of money, and people then state that GOLD or OIL or some other commodity of choice has specific "value" to base money on. WRONG. Just as money has a perceived value, so does gold and oil and any other substitute for money you can think of.
The point is this: ANY government issued money can be tied to the value of some commodity. So what? The instant there is no public faith, or belief, in the specific government, then the money is still worthless. Go ahead an try to get the commodity tied to the money. It would not happen, as the government failed. Worth less than the paper it was printed on. (Example: Confederate Dollars. Go ahead and try to get the gold backing those up.)
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What are your guys' parameters? I mean we are not all slaves to money, but we do require it to survive...