Everything has two sides, money is no exception. So is money an angel or a devil? In fact, it is both an angel and a devil. For those who lead an honest and clean life and don't want money, money is simply the devil. Will destroy people's will and make people love. For those who covet wealth, money is simply the most beautiful angel, which can not only bring prosperity, but also bring glory and status. There are two kinds of people in the world, so there are two different interpretations of money. Indeed, having money is not necessarily bad, and having no money is not necessarily good. There is a good saying: "money is not everything. Without money, nothing can be done."
Napoleon once had everything that many people dreamed of-glory, power and wealth, but he said, "I have never had a happy day in my life." Helen is deaf and blind. She said, "I find life so beautiful." Being rich is not necessarily good, but being happy without money.
So different people have different views on money. How can we use and treat money correctly? Only a wise man can treat it correctly.
What can money do? What can't money do? Money can buy food, but it can't buy appetite; Money can buy medicine, but not health; Money can buy acquaintances, but not friends; Money can buy dedication, but not trust. So everything can't be forced, and money can't solve any problems.
For money, we must learn to use it. Wang, secretary of the rural party branch, has two views on money: one is that "people can't live without money", with millions of money, but simple and simple. Second, "people can't live for money." He thinks money is lighter than cotton. He generously helped the poor, took out all his money and turned the village into a billion-dollar village. What a great man!
With regard to money, we should take proper measures, make money through proper means, acquire wealth through honest labor and legal operation, and the ill-gotten wealth will eventually be taken away. Making money by illegal operation and illegal means will never end well.
Establish a correct view of money, our soul will be purer, our morality will be higher, and our realm and wisdom will be higher.
1. In modern social life, money is a comprehensive representative of wealth. Since it is a comprehensive representative, simple logic infers that having money means having wealth; Accordingly, people's pursuit of money is also the pursuit of wealth; People's attitude towards money is also their attitude towards wealth. In fact, this simple logical inference is problematic, because money is only the "comprehensive representative" of wealth, not the wealth itself-you have gold or dollars, they are not cars and houses, clean air and pure drinking water, and they are not equal to spiritual pleasure, full life and freedom of thought. Although you use gold or dollars, you can exchange some of these real wealth. In other words, there is a close relationship between money and real wealth, but there is still a distance between money and the "comprehensive representative" of real wealth. Moreover, a lot of wealth cannot be represented, measured and exchanged by money.
It is precisely because of this relationship between money and real wealth that we should not equate money with wealth, let alone simply equate the pursuit and possession of money with the embodiment of life value and the pursuit of happiness. About money, we need a kind of life wisdom.
Wealth is an all-encompassing and very broad concept. As far as modern social life is concerned, people generally understand that it includes not only material products that serve people's survival and life, but also intangible products such as people's psychological pleasure and spiritual satisfaction. It includes both "private wealth (such as family property)" that can be privatized to individuals or families, and "* * * wealth" (such as blue sky and white clouds and clean air) that is difficult to privatize; It includes both things obtained directly from nature and things made artificially; Man-made things include not only materialized and tangible products, but also non-materialized cultural products such as systems, rules, habits, traditions and customs, as well as the existence of pure concepts such as religion, belief, ideology and subjective value judgment. Generally speaking, wealth is the sum of everything that people pursue in real life and think is valuable. For individuals in modern social life, the pursuit of all kinds of wealth is the whole content and the whole purpose of life. Just look at how you determine the "wealth goal" in your mind-some people pursue the richness of material products; Some people pursue the satisfaction of spiritual realm; Some people pursue the tranquility of religious process; Some people pursue the practice of faith. So many wealth goals pursue choices, which makes our world full of vitality and color.
Regrettably, in the era of monetary economy, money has largely monotonous people's pursuit and choice for the goal of diversification of wealth. Money seems to represent and measure the value of all the wealth in the world, and seems to be convertible to all the wealth in the world. People's pursuit and possession of it seems to be synonymous with all wealth pursuit and possession. In this way, the purpose of life, in addition to the pursuit and possession of money, there will be no other valuable things. There is no doubt that this is an illusion, but this illusion confuses most people, especially when money can be used to avoid labor and personal punishment, buy marriage and compensate life, money is directly related to the value of life, and this illusion of "money can do everything" is increasing day by day.
Based on the understanding that money is the "comprehensive representative" of wealth, but it is not the wealth itself, and money cannot fully measure, represent and exchange all wealth, our wisdom about money is that in real social life, we should not only pursue money to obtain the wealth it can represent (such as housing, cars, etc.). ), but also the pursuit of wealth that money cannot represent (such as inner peace); We should have a certain amount of money, but don't just stay in the state of money, but also enjoy the real wealth that money can buy, that is, spend money. Otherwise, we just have money and wealth and become real "misers"; We should pursue money in a certain time and space, and also give up the pursuit of money in a certain time and space in order to enjoy enough leisure in life. In such a wise life, money will always be your loyal servant, and you will win the rich content of life and the real realization of life value. In other words, you live wisely.
Many thinkers in history have shown a strong pessimistic view about money, money and life, money and society. Marx made a fierce attack on the fetishism of commodity currency, arguing that under the condition of commodity currency, especially in the capitalist society where labor is transformed into commodities and money is transformed into capital, this fetishism has an indelible attribute, which deeply enslaves or "alienates" human existence. Therefore, overthrowing the capitalist social system and abolishing the commodity currency system have become the basic premise for the ideal construction of a better society in the future. German social thinker Zimmel thinks that the reality that "money is a secular god" is sad, because money is just an empty form, not wealth itself, nor can it represent all wealth. "Money is just a bridge to the ultimate value, and people can't live on the bridge." Different from Marx, Simmel did not abolish the ideal design of the monetary system, but sighed helplessly in front of reality, full of endless sadness.
Unfortunately, we live in a historical stage and society where money exists. In the foreseeable future, we can't abolish money at all, but is it necessary for us to succumb to money or indulge in its pessimism? At least, I don't think it's necessary. For an individual, if he can live with money wisely, he only regards money as a tool or means of life, not a purpose of life. I am convinced that this life with real content and rich wealth structure is a relatively successful and valuable life, although it is not and cannot be a perfect life.
There is a famous saying in La Traviata: "Money is a good servant and a bad master." Being the master of money or the slave of money embodies two different views on money.
The concept of money is the fundamental view and attitude towards money, which is closely related to the outlook on life. Money is produced to meet the needs of commodity exchange, and gradually becomes a symbol of wealth with the high development of commodity economy. The bourgeois view of money has two characteristics, one is "money is supreme". Starting from their own class and personal self-interest, they put money in the supreme position and value money in everything. As long as you can get the money, you can stop at nothing. The second is "money talks". They exaggerate the role of money and advocate that "money makes the mare go", "money decides everything" and "money is happiness".
Marxism scientifically reveals the essence and historical function of money, and holds that money, as a material wealth, is created by human beings and serves human beings, and human beings should be the masters of money, not its slaves. People rely on their own labor to create wealth and acquire property. Money is glorious, but it is shameful to get it for nothing through exploitation, plunder and fraud. Money plays an important role in promoting commodity exchange, but money is not everything. There are more important and precious things in the world than money. Madame Curie gave up the huge sum of "radium patent" and resolutely announced the radium smelting technology to the world, and donated the world's first gram of radium worth 6.5438+0 million francs to the cancer treatment institute. 1950, the famous mathematician Hua refused the offer of tenure as a professor at the University of Illinois in the United States, and took his wife and children across the stormy waves of the Pacific Ocean to devote himself to the construction of the motherland.
Money is a necessary condition for a happy life, but money is not equal to happiness, because human beings cannot live without spiritual life. People with rich material life and empty spiritual life will not have real happiness.
Since the birth of money, people have different opinions on its evaluation. Throughout the ages, around money, there have been many shocking tragicomedy of joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, love and hate. So everyone should be familiar with such a topic and have something to say.
However, if you want to write this topic well and win the favor of marking teachers, you have to work hard. Judging from the materials and introduction of the topic, the scope of the topic is very extensive and profound. The words of ordinary people and philosophers quoted in the material vividly illustrate the meaning, function and disadvantages of money from two extreme images, and the general sentence with "no matter" as the introduction briefly and profoundly expounds the historical function and significance of money. Not only that, materials and leads are also related to people's daily life, which makes people think calmly and carefully examine the origin, significance and function of money from a historical height and a realistic level.
As we all know, in ancient times, people often put "agriculture" in opposition to "commerce", "righteousness" and "profit". The ancients compared agriculture to "foundation" and commerce to "end", meaning that agriculture is like roots and commerce is like treetops. Narrowly think that only agriculture can benefit the country and the people, and doing business is unprofessional and fundamental. It seems that agriculture is right and commerce is guilty. When it comes to money, people often associate "power" with "name" and "righteousness" with "profit", thinking that once they have power, they will definitely make profits, and once they become famous, they will definitely pay attention to profits. Money has no "righteousness" and does not contain the nobility of "righteousness". It seems that if you have money, you lose your "righteousness".
Today, in the tide of reform and opening up, we have seen the power of money more clearly, and have further understood the negative impact of money on people. However, we can't ignore the countless noble behaviors related to money in the new era, such as project hope, caring sponsorship, charitable donation and so on. To correctly understand the "character" of money, we should not unilaterally think that "having money" is "heartless". We should understand that money is material, it is not the only need of human beings, and only spiritual things are the highest realm that human beings will always pursue. We should make money work for us and benefit mankind. To understand the history of money, we should be good at discovering and praising the touching stories of money.