It is a common saying that âmoney is the root of all evil.â
Itâs obviously one of those sayings that has as great deal of staying power, having been around for two thousand years and still going strong. But how fair is it to blame all evil, or even any evil, on a medium of exchange,I think it would be a much more accurate statement to say that the root of most evil is manâs desire for status.Itâs easy to point to many evils committed for the sake of status in which money wasnât involved at all.
Desire for money, or greed for money if you prefer to use stronger language (reminiscent of a scene from the movie Wall Street), is a good thing when people play by the rules, and when their desire for money and status results in better ways of doing business and in inventions that help people and that make the world a better place. Desire for money and status is only bad when people do bad things in order to obtain what they desire. And even then, itâs not âgreedâ thatâs really bad, but the person whoâs doing the bad things whoâs bad.
The goal of a just government should not be to punish people for being successful in obtaining money, but to create rules to ensure that competition for money results in good for society.
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