The Need to be Rich

Americans and other people all over the world are all subject to the desire and the need to be rich. People walk a thin line between knowing how much enough is and constantly wanting to have more and more money no matter how much capital they come to possess. This need for wealth is a basic psychological instinct and is dismissed by many people, but embraced by others. While many people say that it is a sin to be rich, there is also the other side of the coin, which is endorsed by many people who recognize that money is just a means to an end. The question, then, is how much of this money is needed and when will humans ever come to understand that we all have ‘enough’?

Money came into existence in order to make trade fairer. When transactions took place, there no longer had to be an exchange of one good or service for another, but the person who was in need of something could pay for it with money and the receiver of the money could then go purchase the goods or services that they needed from someone else. This system brought about more freedom in the trading culture of the past. Nowadays, there’s so much money around that it becomes a bit ridiculous of where to draw the line of having ‘enough’ money. Is there one version of ‘enough’ that is the same for all humans? Surely, it changes by region and by culture.

In some parts of the world, having enough food to eat every day would make onlookers consider you to be a rich family. This may sound like an exaggeration, but there are certainly more families and individuals living in severe poverty than we care or tend to recognize. This fact can be shocking if it is not understood properly, but the bottom line is that there are many people living in the world in extreme poverty…and they are not as unhappy as one would think! Many poor families and communities find other things to enjoy and to cherish; the love and laughter that exist in these families and communities is often the first thing that outsiders notice. For the western world, extreme poverty seems like a curse of sorts, but their riches often lie in human emotions instead of in possessions.

Can we learn from these places on the planet where ‘rich’ means something different from what it means here? Is it sinful to want more money? Let’s face it: we live in a material world and we live in a world where currency is necessary. One can’t go to the grocery store and offer to trade a dozen home-hatched eggs for a loaf of bread. Money is absolutely necessary in the society where we live, and wanting to make life easier by having enough money is only natural. Of course, the million dollar question is: ‘how much is enough?’ Unfortunately, that’s a question that each person will answer differently; one man’s idea of ‘rich’ is another man’s idea of ‘poor’. The desire that they each have for money is what is similar.

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