Currency is one of the most important inventions every devised. It is what allowed rapid human advancement. The main reason for our rapid advancement is money. (Corporations spend money on R&D to make more money and beat competition…this never ending circle is perfect for advancement.
A very very interesting article: http://www.turtletrader.com/atlas_shrugged.html This article will make you better understand just how important\vital money is.

Thanks,
Sam

Money is merely a tool.
Any tool can be misused.
Excessive creation of new money out of thin air is a form of theft.
Governments with massive debt (one of 10 major abuses) use excessive money-printing to reduce debt, which devalues the currency.

At any rate, the voters have the government that the voters elect (and re-elect, and re-elect, and re-elect , . . . , at least until that finally becomes too painful).

Evil existed before money so it is inaccurate to say “money is the root of all evil.” But it is accurate to say “it is easier to do evil with money than it is to do good.” This is because of the nature of money as “only quantity.” There is no quality attached to money. I don’t know how you earn your money. It doesn’t matter. All I care about is how much you have.

ONLY QUANTITY MATTERS. This makes money inherently evil because it relegates QUALITY to the domain of “irrelevant.”
Of course, quality matters. But money doesn’t recognize it.

We need a new economic system which recognizes quality. If there is only one way to do something then we are living in a tyranny … the tyranny of money.

Currency in general.

What makes it evil is it’s inequality.

Are we all human?

I would say yes to that, and we all live on the same planet, correct?

So why does my neighbor have more or maybe less than I do, if we both are human beings and both share the same planet?

Money is I’ve heard tell everyone share of the earth, Currency, which is all fine and dandy till there are those that have way to much and those that have way to little…

Ok so that evens out I have read. HOW? With most society’s there is a very real law of SUPPLY and DEMAND. You have a percentage that has so much money it is quite disgusting then it makes the little the lower percentage has even that much less…

Ok let’s say you do agree with me that we are all human and we all live on earth. OK we are on same page there.

So lets say you have a rich family, and a poor family.
What would be the difference in the two? Money? yes but more than that.

for example, I am sure the poor family has tastes just as the rich, they both have two kids and they are once again both human beings right?

Well how much would you want to bet that because of money they both live totally different.

The rich gets the best quality of health care, education, and quality of living in general maybe even get to go on vacations around the world and enjoy our planet Earth.

The poor family, would get whatever education, or healthcare that most likely the society was willing to give them. Vacation, forget it closes they will get is a book at the public library to read about visiting other places on earth but to ever step foot there, not even a chance.

So now you tell me is MONEY the root of all EVIL?

Maybe not, Maybe it’s the INEQUALITY of all Human Beings that is EVIL.

For if every person on earth had an EQUAL share of money, then Money would no longer hold that EVIL conatation.

I know people who just read that rolled their eyes about everyone having an equal share of all the money in the world and that saddens me, if you didn’t then your on your way…

For we will never reach enlightenment or “Utopia” till everyone is truly thought of as an Equal in ALL things.

We all are human beings, we all live on the same planet, so why has everything become mine and yours, and not OURS…

There was a great commercial years ago, by Coke i believe where they all joined hands across the world. What a wonderful thought.

But until the Greed of a few, finally outweigh the suffering of many, we will never ALL TRULY BECOME EQUAL HUMAN BEINGS (Earthlings), and things will never change…

JB

Thanks for the thoughtful comment.

I certainly agree that we were created to make use of this world in a responsible way, as caretakers.

However, we were created to excel at making and using tools of all kinds.
The more powerful the tool, the greater ease and potential for good or evil. Tools are amplifiers which express what is inside of us.

As a powerful tool, money often facilitates evil, and it facilitates good.
Any source of power (and money is among the strongest) enables us to pretend that the world is ours to do with as we please.

Before money there were land, armies, possessions, and other ways to feel powerful and arrogant. We are often weak, and looking for a quick fix. We go after external sources of power and greatness, rather than the real power that comes from inner strength.

Tools, and sources of external power (such as money) make it easy for us to express the worst in us, and thereby become even more caught up in foolishness.

Still, tools and external power are not good or evil. We are.
We will not stop evil by outlawing tools or power, only by working on our own hearts.

Joel

And remember, money has a value because it is the most effecient way of exchanging value. Nothing else. The day money is less effecient than anything else, that day money will no longer have the highest value in our world. That day, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet will no longer be regarded the richest people in the world. The change can be imminent. Wealth has to do with your mindset and knowing who you are benief your skin if all the money you have is stripped and gone.

That raises the question: What will be the currency of tomorrow:)?