Its nice to have, wish I didn't need it.Can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love
I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright
'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
I'll give you all I got to give if you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, no no no, no
Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of thing that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love
Money doesn't exist.
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It's a very useful thing to have.
It's a very stressful thing not to have.
Money is definitely an abstraction. A placeholder. It represents something. I'm not 100% sure if I'm sold on your "goodwill" idea but it seems close.I have a long-held theory about this. I know it is idealized, but this is how I see money:
The word "money" can be replaced by the word "goodwill" in any sentence.
That's why stealing is a universal crime. Because money (goodwill) needs to be given or earned... never taken. It also might explain why lottery winners never seem to be happy in the long run. Because that large amount of "goodwill" was won, not earned, and therefore not appreciated as much, nor even "deserved" in some small sense. I have other examples that satisfy my theory, but I'll keep them to myself because I'm trying to write shorter posts.
So, my definition is this: Money is an abstraction that represents the amount of goodwill we've earned. One needs money to thrive in a structured society just like one needs goodwill to thrive in that same society.
I can't decide if I want to answer how I feel about my relationship with money or what I think about the concept of money in general.
Well... my relationship with money is kind of weird. I obsess about it a little bit. I am not materialistic but I think about it a lot. I track every cent and I try hard to save. Some of this probably traces back to a hang up I have where once in a while I feel like my life has been too easy up to this point and it will eventually fall apart. I get this sense of impending doom. I think trying to obsessively track my money fits into that. It isn't that I'm stingy with it. I buy whatever I want basically, but I have to work it into my plan and keep emergency funds and stuff. I get nervous if I don't have that.ooh...i think both should be interesting. let's have it!
Money is definitely an abstraction. A placeholder. It represents something. I'm not 100% sure if I'm sold on your "goodwill" idea but it seems close.
nebbykoo said:You can buy drugs with it.