Comments on: Is Wealth Bad? http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/ Personal finance and entrepreneurship Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:29:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hernoid http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-26712 hernoid Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:29:20 +0000 http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/#comment-26712 It seems to me that if we indeed were to all be blessed by moneterial wealth, would that not guarantee the destruction of the earth and its ecological sustenance by our economical windfalls? Would we not all then be driving large suvs, buying up all the gas we've ever dreamt of to fill up our anstonishingly unecessarily large fleet of vehicles? we would all need to provide heat and lighting to our 10 houses which we would need to store all the useless crap we could then afford to inevitabily throw away into our growing waste facilities? The fat cats could then be fatter and it wouldn't matter because we'd also be fat. But whatever I mean who cares right? It seems to me that if we indeed were to all be blessed by moneterial wealth, would that not guarantee the destruction of the earth and its ecological sustenance by our economical windfalls?
Would we not all then be driving large suvs, buying up all the gas we’ve ever dreamt of to fill up our anstonishingly unecessarily large fleet of vehicles? we would all need to provide heat and lighting to our 10 houses which we would need to store all the useless crap we could then afford to inevitabily throw away into our growing waste facilities? The fat cats could then be fatter and it wouldn’t matter because we’d also be fat.

But whatever I mean who cares right?

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]]> By: Consumerism Commentary: A Blog About Personal Finance http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-766 Consumerism Commentary: A Blog About Personal Finance Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:36:49 +0000 http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/#comment-766 <strong>Carnival of Personal Finance #53...</strong> Welcome to the anniversary edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! What a year it has been. The first Carnival of Personal Finance was posted on June 20, 2005. To celebrate the Carnival’s first birthday, I asked participants to submit two... Carnival of Personal Finance #53…

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]]> By: Russell Page http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Russell Page Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:54:08 +0000 http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/#comment-20 Interesting thing for people to call wealth evil when they would say that God is the wealthiest and most prosperous being in the universe. So ask them again . . . is wealth evil? No. Wealth does not equal money. Money is merely an exchange mechanism that we have said equals wealth. The only value that money really has is the value we say it has. I would say that some of the greatest people in the world are the ones that have the most money because they have actually created something of value for people. Bill Gates may be rich, but he only got that way making a lot of people's lives better. They valued his product more than they valued their actualy money. He got bills. They got programs. If both sides didn't think it was great, they probably wouldn't have done it. And now he is taking that money and giving to aids research and such. What a guy. Interesting thing for people to call wealth evil when they would say that God is the wealthiest and most prosperous being in the universe.

So ask them again . . . is wealth evil? No. Wealth does not equal money. Money is merely an exchange mechanism that we have said equals wealth. The only value that money really has is the value we say it has.

I would say that some of the greatest people in the world are the ones that have the most money because they have actually created something of value for people. Bill Gates may be rich, but he only got that way making a lot of people’s lives better. They valued his product more than they valued their actualy money. He got bills. They got programs. If both sides didn’t think it was great, they probably wouldn’t have done it.

And now he is taking that money and giving to aids research and such. What a guy.

]]> By: Debt Hater http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Debt Hater Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:58:45 +0000 http://www.firevalt.com/blog/2006/02/16/is-wealth-bad/#comment-11 I agree with you. I always hated dealing with money, mostly because I didn't understand it, and because I didn't want to succumb to greed. But the more I learn about money, the more I realizet that it isn't the money I'm interested in. I'm interested in freedom, in the ability to help other in ways I can't now because I'm struggling myself. I'm interested in providing opportunities. I'm interested in having fun! "The love of money is the root of all evil." There's nothing wrong with money or wealth. I agree with you. I always hated dealing with money, mostly because I didn’t understand it, and because I didn’t want to succumb to greed. But the more I learn about money, the more I realizet that it isn’t the money I’m interested in. I’m interested in freedom, in the ability to help other in ways I can’t now because I’m struggling myself. I’m interested in providing opportunities. I’m interested in having fun! “The love of money is the root of all evil.” There’s nothing wrong with money or wealth.

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