Money makes the world go round...
Money makes the world go round. According to website UK Essays "the quotation 'money makes the world go round' was first used in a musical play ' Cabaret', it was written in the 1960's ... The main aim of this line was to say that it is money that makes the world turn, not nobility or love. It highlights the fact that our society is heavily dependent on money."
Our society is indeed heavily dependent on money. The Dutch say that 'geld maakt niet gelukkig' which translates as 'money does not make one happy' - a statement I agree with. Personally I am afraid that our society as it is cares WAY too much about money, power, wealth and influence. We seem to have forgotten that people matter and that living beings should come before money, before power and before wealth.
Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports today that Google will now be allowing developers to promote their Apps in the Google Play store. Just as sponsored results in Google Search come up first, so will sponsored apps show up at the top of any search in Google's Play store. Advertisements will only be shown in the American version of the Play Store at first.
Money makes the world go round and to ensure the world keeps turning, big companies need to be able to reach average consumers so that those average people can spend their money with the big companies. Big companies in turn provide jobs for the people and support the government and the economy. That is how the world works. However it is not how the world needs to work and honestly, I am fed up with the world working as it does. Money makes the world go round only because we choose to let it. Money is something humans came up with - we assign value to pieces of paper or coins of various metals and all together pretend that paper and metal have real value, that a stack of bills can buy a house or a car. Sure, some bills are gorgeous with very intricate designs on them, however they are only pieces of paper with numbers and pretty swirls on them. The only reason they are worth more than a child's drawing is that we choose to make them worth more.
As long as we keep caring about money first and people second, as long as our society cares more about advertisers and Big Business than about consumers and individual people, we will continue seeing a huge (and probably ever-growing) gap between rich and poor. Compared to Hollywood actors or international soccer / football stars who make millions of dollars a year, I am poor and will never be rich. Compared to a homeless child in Africa who's lost her home and her family, I am rich and will never know poverty.
The world is unfair and will remain that way as long as we choose to keep on giving money to those who have enough of it already and choose to ignore those who are starving in the gutter. Money will not solve the world's problems, it is people who will do that together. Just imagine a world that does not revolve around money, wealth, influence or power... It is easy if you try!
Our society is indeed heavily dependent on money. The Dutch say that 'geld maakt niet gelukkig' which translates as 'money does not make one happy' - a statement I agree with. Personally I am afraid that our society as it is cares WAY too much about money, power, wealth and influence. We seem to have forgotten that people matter and that living beings should come before money, before power and before wealth.
Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports today that Google will now be allowing developers to promote their Apps in the Google Play store. Just as sponsored results in Google Search come up first, so will sponsored apps show up at the top of any search in Google's Play store. Advertisements will only be shown in the American version of the Play Store at first.
Money makes the world go round and to ensure the world keeps turning, big companies need to be able to reach average consumers so that those average people can spend their money with the big companies. Big companies in turn provide jobs for the people and support the government and the economy. That is how the world works. However it is not how the world needs to work and honestly, I am fed up with the world working as it does. Money makes the world go round only because we choose to let it. Money is something humans came up with - we assign value to pieces of paper or coins of various metals and all together pretend that paper and metal have real value, that a stack of bills can buy a house or a car. Sure, some bills are gorgeous with very intricate designs on them, however they are only pieces of paper with numbers and pretty swirls on them. The only reason they are worth more than a child's drawing is that we choose to make them worth more.
As long as we keep caring about money first and people second, as long as our society cares more about advertisers and Big Business than about consumers and individual people, we will continue seeing a huge (and probably ever-growing) gap between rich and poor. Compared to Hollywood actors or international soccer / football stars who make millions of dollars a year, I am poor and will never be rich. Compared to a homeless child in Africa who's lost her home and her family, I am rich and will never know poverty.
The world is unfair and will remain that way as long as we choose to keep on giving money to those who have enough of it already and choose to ignore those who are starving in the gutter. Money will not solve the world's problems, it is people who will do that together. Just imagine a world that does not revolve around money, wealth, influence or power... It is easy if you try!
