Money, the media of exchange for products and services, provides things people need, like food, clothing, shelter, or medicine. People spend most of their life looking for it. My parent for example, works from sunrise to sunset to obtain it. The more money people have the more benefits they can get, because they will be able to get a bigger and better houses, clothes, or food. Less money means stress in bill payments, gas prices, and food prices. With money, people can fulfill their material need. However, money cannot buy everything such as happiness, friendship and love, health, and appetite. Money provides pleasure for humans, like houses, cars, or things people like in the term of toys. However, those material needs will bring temporary happiness. People can buy the newest toy they want, like iPhone. People feel pleasure when people the get the things they want. However, since it is a technology, other new things will be released and the pleasure from the precious toys will decrease. Telegraph, interviewed an Australian millionaire, Karl Rabeder, who was able to buy 3,455 sq ft villa which worth 1.4 million pound sterling. He was also able to buy 17 hectares farmhouse which worth 613,000 pound sterling in the market. He also collected six gliders, which valued at 350,000 pound sterling, and a luxury Audi A8, worth 44,000 pound sterling. He was also able to have a vacation to Hawaii and enjoy the five stars hotel he stayed at. However, he sold his entire asset and gave it all to charity in Central and Latin America. He realizes that money avoids the happiness to come. Now he feels lighter than ever. Many lottery winners also return their prize to charity. Once there was also an old Chinese man who won 4 million Yuan. The onl... ... middle of paper ... ...uch as addiction, whether it is addiction to money or other items. People might not even realize it that they were being controlled by the money. Money which brings troubles to human is not everything. Health, lifetime, relationship, happiness, and appetite are the most important thing in human life. Works Cited Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson. New York: Broadway. 2007. Print. Life is Beautiful. Dr. Roberto Benigni. Perf. Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschim Giorgio, Cantarini, Giustion Durano. Miramax Films. 1997. Film. Samuel, Henry.“ Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable.” telegraph.co.uk. Telegraph Media Group. Web. 8 February 2010. The Mummy: The Tomb of Dragon Emperor, Dr. Rob Cohen. Perf. Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michael Yeoh, Russell Wong. Universal Pictures. 2008. Film.
Another satisfying material that a person can own is money. Money is something that is very important to possess. Owning money can satisfy a person’s hunger, shelter, and just about everything it takes for that person to live. A person would not be satisfied if they did not own any money. They would be depressed and have to live on the streets.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Dir. Milos Forman. Perf. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield. Warner Bros, 2010. DVD.
Money is something that can either be used for the greater good of society, or it can be contorted into something that is detrimental to society, it all depends on whose hands that money happens to fall into. Human tendencies begin to change once people come to have money, the lavish and selfish lifestyle begins. Entitlement comes with having money because money gives people what they want which makes people think they are entitled to get everything they want. In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald portrays that money is the root of all problems with can ultimately lead to loneliness and careless behavior.
Cameron Crowe. Perf. Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. Tri- Star Pictures, 1996.
... desire for money and mindless consumerism. As Ben Franklin once said, “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” (brainyquote.com).
In the Westing Game money acts as a sign of power to show in the end money is the not the final goal and when money is involved we forget about how much more powerful emotional value is. People use things and want things with artificial value because we give it power. Power gives us control which we take and use it towards something with an emotional sense of value. The problem is that people naturally get caught up in the power of money and forget about things with emotional power. Causing us to forget about things with emotional value and eventually lose what people started saving for.
Happiness is a feeling adults experience when they receive a gift, win something, and various other reasons, but does money buy this happiness everyone experiences? Don Peck and Ross Douthat claim money does buy happiness, but only to a point in their article which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly (252). Throughout their article, reasons on why money can sometimes buy happiness are explained. While some of the reasons given are effective, not all are satisfying answers for adults working diligently to make a living. Money is a part of everyone’s life, yet it is not always the cause of happiness.
Winning the lottery is something practically everyone dreams of. Similarly, the novel, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, and the articles “Does Money Equal Happiness?” by Jennifer Davidson and “Winning the Lottery: Does it Guarantee Happiness?” by Elizabeth Landau, all show what happens to people when they become wealthy. With the collection of many circumstances, it has become clear that money cannot buy happiness, because instead, it causes a person to fear, neglect their religion, and be filled with misfortune.
People need money to live, and enough to buy the basic goods one needs to survive, but everybody wants more money. More money means an easier life. The more money one has, the more money one wants, as is shown in the story, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence.
Dir. Julie Taymor. Perf. Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1999.
When none of us has ever come across such words and formulas, none of the great personalities has ever mentioned it, then who the hell has instilled it in our minds that money brings happiness. But among this debate one question still raises its head - What is happiness? Happiness is not actually leading a luxurious life but the luxury of living a life. Happiness is not actually about expanding your business, but it lies in expanding the horizons of life. Happiness is not having a meal in the most famous restaurant but to have it with your most beloved family. It does not lie in attending honorable parties but to attend a party with honor.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Dir. Michel Gondry. Perf. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet. Focus Features, 2004. DVD.
Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, is a story of the love between a man and his college professor, Morrie Schwartz. This true story captures the compassion and wisdom of a man who only knew good in his heart and lived his life to the fullest up until the very last breath of his happily fulfilled life. When Mitch learned of Morrie’s illness, the began the last class of Morrie’s life together and together tried to uncover “The Meaning of Life.” These meetings included discussions on everything from the world when you enter it to the world when you say goodbye. Morrie Schwartz was a man of great wisdom who loved and enjoyed to see and experience simplicity in life, something beyond life’s most challenging and unanswered mysteries. Morrie was a one of a kind teacher who taught Mitch about the most important thing anyone can ever learn: life. He taught Mitch about his culture, about trust, and perhaps most importantly, about how to live.
Money is probably one of the most important things in this world. Without it, life would be very hard. With it, you become economically stable making life would be easier in some ways. But the real question is, can money actually make someone physically and emotionally happy? There are many sides to this debate; some who say yes and others who say no. Though most people agree with the statement, “Money doesn’t buy happiness,” there is still a large amount of people who disagree with it. They believe that money does indeed buy happiness and that it’s the most important thing in the world. There is no right or wrong answer to this question, it’s just a matter of what you believe in and your values.
“Money is number and numbers never end if it takes money to be happy your search for happiness will never end.” (Bob Marley). For the majority of people in our modern-capitalist world, money is the first thing, and sometimes the only thing that measures success in life. Money can buy power. Money can buy fame. Money can buy time. Sometimes money can even buy a life. So money has become the first common goal for everybody. There are many different perspectives, and how people view the world, in terms of success, and money. Money is not the root of all evil, but the love of money is the root of all evil.