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 can't live without spiritual life. People with rich material life and empty spiritual life will not have real happiness.
Children love money, so take it wisely and use it wisely. Money is not everything, but we can't do anything without it. Everyone has his own outlook on money, just as everyone has his own outlook on life. We live in a contradictory world, and everything has two sides, so we should have a principle to look at everything and things with a connected and developing eye. Money is closely related to our life. The status and function of money can't be changed by our manpower since ancient times. It is static, while we are dynamic and have great transformation ability, so we can have it and use it to realize our ideals. However, we can't go too far, it will be like a miser. The key to treating money is to see its great function and bright spot, so that it can serve us and help us to achieve our goals better.
How to treat money and power is a common problem in life. We should establish the outlook on life of serving the people wholeheartedly, and establish a correct view of money and power. Both the view of money and the view of power are important parts of the outlook on life, especially establishing a correct view of money, that is, a correct view and attitude towards money, is an unavoidable problem for everyone.
Money, as the general name of money, is the product of the development of commodity exchange and acts as a special commodity among universal equivalents. It can be exchanged with various commodities, which makes money a symbol of wealth. The more money he has, the more wealth he owns and controls. As a result, money has become the object of people's pursuit, and money worship has emerged, that is, money worship.
1. There is a Yap Island in the Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The residents of the island regard the mined stones as money, that is, they get money directly from nature. This kind of stone money, called Fei, was mined from another island 400 miles south of Yap Island. On the premise that the texture meets the requirements, the value of the stone depends on its size. The bigger the stone, the greater the value.
Because people are pursuing greater value, many local residents take great risks to bring back big stones from overseas islands. Because the stone is relatively large, it is really inconvenient as a trading tool. Therefore, the residents of the island do not move the stone when trading, but the owner of the stone verbally declares that the stone has changed hands. It is said that an interesting story happened in Yap Island: a rich family claimed that there was a huge boundless stone "flying" on the island 400 miles away to show that his family had great wealth. In fact, the residents of Yap Island have never seen what that stone looks like or how big it is. The wealth of this rich family exists only as an idea in the minds of the island residents.
1898, the German government took over the Caroline Islands from Spain. The manager planned to rebuild the road on Yap Island, but the residents on the island resisted.
When the Germans realized that all the wealth of the residents on the island was the stone "fees" distributed on the island, they came up with a way to subdue these residents. They sent people to draw black crosses on all the stones on the island with black dye, announcing that the stones with black crosses are no longer money. In this way, the islanders suddenly lost all their wealth and had to build roads honestly according to the wishes of the Germans. At this time, the Germans sent someone to clean the black cross on all the stones "Fei" and announced that these stones were still money. The residents of Yap Island are very happy to regain their wealth.
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.