Giggly
No moss growing on me
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Someone I know told me that he had been working since the age of 15 because his father told him that if he wanted anything he had to work and buy it for himself to learn the value of money.
This made me think about how exactly one would learn the value of money that way.
It must be assumed that when you work, you suffer, and that suffering is what makes you learn the value of money. So work must be unpleasant, painful or not enjoyable and that is why you value the things you buy with the money you earn from your work so much. Consider the time/blood/sweat/tears/sacrifice etc. you've put into working in order to make that money, you would never waste it, right? Nor would you be careless with the things you buy?
But what about people who love their job, or who love to go to work? Would they not value the money they make from it?
I don't know, there's something slightly disturbing about all this and I can't quite put my finger on it.
This made me think about how exactly one would learn the value of money that way.
It must be assumed that when you work, you suffer, and that suffering is what makes you learn the value of money. So work must be unpleasant, painful or not enjoyable and that is why you value the things you buy with the money you earn from your work so much. Consider the time/blood/sweat/tears/sacrifice etc. you've put into working in order to make that money, you would never waste it, right? Nor would you be careless with the things you buy?
But what about people who love their job, or who love to go to work? Would they not value the money they make from it?
I don't know, there's something slightly disturbing about all this and I can't quite put my finger on it.