The Chapel! (8) by SeanMartin
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Money... making the world go round since... forever.....
http://docandraider.com/2016/02/01/the-chapel-8/
We're going to leave this for a bit and let Eddie meditate on the advantages of new aprons and hedgeclippers. But without giving away the balance of the storyline (to be resumed in the spring), a few small thoughts about money...
Yep. money is great, no two ways about it. It's certainly far better to have it than to not, and yet the question sometimes looms: when is enough enough? I read stories about these mega-millionaire celebrities and politicians and their 85-room houses and oversized yachts that destroy coral reefs simply by existing... and I wonder: is all that cash really giving these people any satisfaction whatsoever?
I"m kinda guessing not, given the sometimes lunatic way they spend it. A gold plated Mazeratti sounds great in concept, but how many times do you drive it before you realize that maybe it wasnt quite as cool as you thought it would be?
Thornton Wilder has a great line about this in his play, "The Matchmaker": "Money — if you'll pardon the expression — is like manure. It's not worth a damn unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow." And of course it's true/ It has nothing to do with "the redistribution of wealth" or any of that other nonsense... just that when you have more of something than you can possibly use, what's the point of hoarding more?
So my suggestion to all twelve of you reading this: go out today and buy something for someone. Doesnt have to have a reason, doesnt have to be a big lavish expense... just something that reaffirms that you value that person as a friend or a co-worker or just a fellow human being. You'll feel better about doing so, and they'll feel better about themselves in the process for knowing you. Win/win all around.
OK, some lighter fare over the next few days, then.... well, we'll see.........
Comments (4)
What an astute observation! Wish I had more money to pay down my debts and what's leftover, I could just buy some prezzies for friends and family.
The latest scientific studies suggest that money promotes happiness up until you are making a good middle class salary. After that more money does not correlate with more happiness. That study is why one young billionaire recently raised the salaries of all his employees to 50k a year. Happiness also comes from security, a stable secure place in a social support network, a sense of purpose in life, and doing what comes naturally. A family retainer has most of this. A housekeeper does what women are genetically programmed to do, a gardener gets to work outdoors with nature, when they are in a position where they have been doing these things for generations and the 'master' is not cruel or abusive, it is not a bad life. Not one you or I would opt for but one which the majority of humanity has chosen throughout history. In the Middle Ages 'masterless man' was an insult 'ronin' meant driftwood in Japanese and meant masterless samurai. A person was known by who is master was. The more important the master, the more important the man. In the "Great Mutiny" of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, one of the Mutineers demands was that only Aristocrats could be officers, commoners 'like themselves' could not command them. It was alright to take orders from an Aristocrat, but insulting to have to take orders from a commoner. Times change.
Fantastic Work,
If only the people with money were listening to this. It is obscene that less than one per cent of the population has more money than the rest of the world. Excellent work!