Money As A Social Construct

[Ucy]

Money represents the value of work done, or reward for problem solved. The stronger the desire for the solution to a problem the more money the one in need of the solution is willing to pay.

If you want more money, you have to master your work and sell/give to people, and they(or more) will come. The master is like light with strong attraction to those in need of it.

There are certain features people desire in sound money. It has to be divisible, longlasting, store of value, easy to self-custody(this is unlike digital fiat), hard to counterfeit, etc

The World can go around without money. There is something called bartering, or go to certain remote communities that live with little to no money yet their needs are met. They basically cooperate to meet each other's needs. It's like the bees, ants and many other animals.
Don't let money rule over your life otherwise it becomes a god to you. This can make you abandon your purpose in life to serve money, for good or evil.

[hyudien]

Money is a measurement (denomination) of trust between parties. The greater the degree of trust between these parties, the greater their conductivity toward producing work (all work is directed toward reproducing some ideal).

Because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, value is subjective. This means that money exists only when the values of the parties involved are aligned. When the desire/motives of the parties are singular (mono), there is the potential for intelligent work to be conducted. Unity of identity. This generates money, or the empowering of the parties involved. Social position is based on purchasing power (ability to redeem the work of others).

Each jurisdiction is defined by the money (currency) which governs its space/territory. This is because, as mentioned earlier money is a measure of credibility relative to a particular social context. It is a registrar of names/numbers which account for credibility.

The most important thing to remember if you desire to generate more money (social capital) is to position yourself within a political climate that embodies your values, and if the group you currently find yourself in does not adequately represent your interests, create your own.

Whether you like it or not, money makes the world go round'. You must compete, but where and how you do it is your choice entirely ...

Every arena/jurisdiction has its own unique rules.

It's quite convoluted just to say that money controls everything. That's all, but standard language will need a simple explanation, but someone might say that money can be found but not with your ability. If that's what we're looking for, it means positioning yourself first in what sector really makes you more comfortable making a profit.

[yhiaali3]

I agree with you that money is the primary driver of everything in the material world. Everything revolves around money, whether individuals, groups or even countries.

Humans are a collection of emotions and desires, all of which drive them to seek money to satisfy them. The desire to own women, real estate, cars, tourism, recreational trips, and enjoy delicious food and drinks and none of this can be achieved without money. Therefore, people, willingly or unwillingly, are driven to seek more and more money.

Even countries need money, and so we find them constantly searching for new resources to develop their economies and militaries. This is why conflicts and wars arise in the world as a result of competition over these resources.

I don't think money is what drives people. I think it's the gap between desire and respect. I've seen people get burned out trying to get fame instead of money. The basic system wouldn't change if you traded money for likes, friends, or academic articles

The world is full of wars, resource grabs, and policy games. The game board got bigger, the pieces got nuclear. There is a stranger tension at the micro level, though. Most people I know have a weird mix of pride and shame about how much their lives depend on money. It's great to be self-sufficient, but as soon as your bank app freezes or the exchange rate changes, your stress levels rise again

Can anything non-money survive the gravitational pull of the system? Friendships, purpose, and even childhood dreams. If you're not careful, they're all now collateral. We need to get more sincere about what it actually buys, and what it can never touch. Being able to live in a society that is obsessed with money and not let it write your entire narrative is the most overlooked skill. In any case, people who find that out tend to make real value on their own terms

Perhaps you don't think so because you have a spiritual mindset, in harmony with yourself and a sense of conviction. It's nice to see such a mindset that's far removed from material things in this materialistic world. Unfortunately, this isn't the reality.

Like you, I don't chase money. All I care about is meeting my needs and my family's monthly expenses. I don't care about becoming wealthy, but society, unfortunately, doesn't agree with me. Even relationships between close friends and family members are tied to money. I've noticed from my experience that the more money you have, the more respect and interest society places in you.
In any case, I'm glad to find optimistic people like you who still maintain a pure spirit.

[qurbanshah02]

Money is important for the society because we need money to exist because people will give respect when we will have money and when we have no money then we will be disrespected because people think that he is not valuable person. There are thousands of people who are leisure and they have no value in society and society give respect to the authority not to the person because the know that he has power and he will get benefit from him at any time, So we should give him respect.But if you have skills then you will be valuable person and people will be engage with you and money will give you all facilities of life and now everyone want to be rich and they are doing wrong things to earn money.

Yes money is the only thing that give us life and death and if we do not earn money then all our desires and need are in vain and we will live like a beggar who is not worthy of anyone. If we make money our goal then we will be successful and people will be with us with whom we can rule this world which is no less than a king and run this world. Many things happen in society and if more money is earn people say that it is a waste of money which is true but it is not true anywhere in society. If we earn more money then we should get it for our own need not for the society to see that we have money. When we do not have money we say that we have money, we would have helped everyone but when we get money, we think that it is our hard work that we will not give to anyone.

[Cheema02]

Money at the moment is entirely made up unfixed imagined value which is actually debt, so yea its whatever we say it is and its nothing in the end.   We're all playing pass the parcel with a time bomb and somebody ends up with a pile of leaves that was supposed to be worth something and its just junk, its almost on purpose a bad joke.
  Instead of commodity value as money used to be based on, I would better describe modern money as a form of communication almost like political capital a claim on future tax revenues perhaps but not actual money in a classical sense hence we have the innovation of crypto which some say will take over and its at least got a fair chance I reckon alongside many other scenarios.

In my opinion, money is the building block of our lives and our social life. It is not the name of development, but it has become a necessity. It is a necessity without which no one can live. So we should think about it very seriously. Rather, instead of serious, I will use the word critical, that is, we should think about it critically. Because without money, we cannot stand anywhere. We will fall down. Without money, we will not be able to stand anywhere, be it our health, our livelihood, or the rest of our needs. So we have to increase our sources, increase the sources of income that we have, so that we can stand in society in a good way and improve our lives in a good way. And this is the key. Money is the only solution through which we can make all these things possible.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

Yes money is the only thing that give us life and death and if we do not earn money then all our desires and need are in vain and we will live like a beggar who is not worthy of anyone. If we make money our goal then we will be successful and people will be with us with whom we can rule this world which is no less than a king and run this world. Many things happen in society and if more money is earn people say that it is a waste of money which is true but it is not true anywhere in society. If we earn more money then we should get it for our own need not for the society to see that we have money. When we do not have money we say that we have money, we would have helped everyone but when we get money, we think that it is our hard work that we will not give to anyone.

Is it when we do not have money we will die and what is the concept of living a simple life that does not involve so much money to support life. Money is important but it does not determine whether a person dies or not because it concerns divine secrets. If the purpose of life is only about money, then there will never be a social level and you also have to understand that the amount of money from one person to another can be different. The greedy nature of humans does not care about the lives of others and they think that fulfilling their own needs is more than enough. The sustenance that we get also has the rights of the poor and maybe we also need to give it to them because in reality giving will not make someone poorer.

[Accardo]

Yes money is the only thing that give us life and death and if we do not earn money then all our desires and need are in vain and we will live like a beggar who is not worthy of anyone. If we make money our goal then we will be successful and people will be with us with whom we can rule this world which is no less than a king and run this world.

The lack of money is not the end of anyone, especially outside the western world. In continents like Africa, there exist the poorest people in the world, but life is fun and most low income earners live like kings, why? Because of the socialization culture; family and friends are fond of catering for a wide range of people. Depression and suicide rate is low, these two factors matters a lot. What you said could be valid in the western world, where it's as if life Is tied to money. I would say to you, the more you don't rely on fortunes the stronger you'll become on this big blue marble. People who hope so much on money tend to hurt themselves when it's gone, which isn't same for someone who has always stayed and survived with or without funds.

[l3pox]

What is your point?

money makes the world go round?

As far as I know, money cannot buy happiness, but yes, people cannot be happy without money. They are directly and indirectly related to each other, those who have more money have more problems, especially symptoms of illness and mental stress. Such problems can always be reflected in the rich and wealthy people.
In this world, every person runs after money to earn income, so in everyone's life, earning money is the biggest sign of survival and money has to be fought for every moment.

neither health in many situations
neither loyalty or true love and friendship
in fact the extent of things that are worth in life that money can buy are pretty narrow, it can buy confort and speed, but there's way more to life than only this
not every person runs after money either, if you have a lot of money it's not hard to make more

[bitgolden]

Money represents the value of work done, or reward for problem solved. The stronger the desire for the solution to a problem the more money the one in need of the solution is willing to pay.

If you want more money, you have to master your work and sell/give to people, and they(or more) will come. The master is like light with strong attraction to those in need of it.

There are certain features people desire in sound money. It has to be divisible, longlasting, store of value, easy to self-custody(this is unlike digital fiat), hard to counterfeit, etc

The World can go around without money. There is something called bartering, or go to certain remote communities that live with little to no money yet their needs are met. They basically cooperate to meet each other's needs. It's like the bees, ants and many other animals.
Don't let money rule over your life otherwise it becomes a god to you. This can make you abandon your purpose in life to serve money, for good or evil.

This "was" the reason why money existed, value of something you do. It could be your hard work, it could be your product, it could be anything that worths money. Nowadays, it's all a bit weird because marketing is a bigger part of the issue, because there could be a great product, which is far better than everything else on the market, but if they do bad marketing and then there is this dude, with terrible product, that does great marketing, then the terrible product would be sold more.

That changed everything and since that existed, we are dealing with much larger issues. Apple is the greatest example of this, macOS is a subpar software, and apple computers are much cheaper components, and yet they sell for more, and sell like candy, because they do great marketing.

[Ryu_Ar1]

The role of money is indeed quite important for now because after all it cannot be denied even though there will be many people who say they can be happy without money but until now we cannot live freely without the money we have.

Honestly I can't take everything you want to mean because the writing you made doesn't reach my little brain because maybe it's too heavy for me to think about but in this case I can only conclude that the role of money is very important for now and we can't let go of its existence in the life we ​​live now.
But even so without ignoring the role of money in the end we also don't just have to focus on money considering the excessive conditions in prioritizing everything that has implications for money alone, it can clearly be something bad. We must remain in a situation where even though we currently cannot live with money, we must not be lulled into focusing only on money because the way to survive to live this life must remain well controlled so that when we focus on money (looking for it by all means) we are trapped in a situation and played by money which in the end its role becomes reversed where money should be able to circulate to make our condition better but what happens is the opposite because we are forced to work for money.

[STT]

It is a necessity without which no one can live

People can and do go without money as an absolute construct dominating their lives like a 100 decibel ticking clock, but I would argue you have to be especially rich in some other regard in order to have that attitude.
  Most of us are here counting beans like its our last hope of survival and every month we try to just cling on and pay those bills, so we can pretend one more time we're ok and its going to be just fine in future things will improve.
   It does help not to spend every dime you get but its a common habit to do so hence money is the only way has been the dog collar around our necks dragging us forward in the rat race regardless of consent or desire elsewhere.


I do not have the story to hand but its not a one off tale.  The story I do remember is of a man who owned a grove of banana plants but had no capital, a large family and land with this resource but no gigantic stack of paperwork and money to show his great wealth.   Yet his community knew him to be a rich man because he had the resources, he had great effective cash flow to do whatever he wished having built up this farmed business over many decades so he appeared poor but was able to exchange constantly this in demand produce for whatever he needed and went without little.  I will try and find a video perhaps, it was in Africa with a nice setup not every country allows this.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3408238/

  Another tale was the famous Eldorado which many thought to be a city of gold however it was found to be that visitors bought the gold not the city itself with a mine etc.   the city wealth was based off a uniquely productive powerful mix of fertilizer  and in the ancient world it was much sort after for the crops it would bring hence wealth but not coin based trade.
  Trade, productive capacity is far more important then these paper notes of debt we run around with.

[ITExpert]

Absolutely money is power, money is a control force and without it the world can't be a better place and it's money that solves or answer to the basic things of life that is needed. With money you can command things, you can put things in place but it shouldn't be that money is the major criteria which is why they say money is the root of all evil, I don't think they made a mistake in regarding this cause it has mounted high pressure on the individuals making them lost count of how well the money should be spent

If we ask this question to the richest person in the society or to the poorest person, both will have the same answer that indeed money is everything because without money you have neither any status nor any recognition. It is money that makes you recognized or gives you a status and forces people to respect you. Of course, they give it willingly or unwillingly. But if we look at it from the other side, money can also be the root of all evils because money gives a person a sense of power, a feeling of such power that in front of it, he does not consider those with less money or a poor person as poor or does not consider them as human beings. Money can never bring prosperity to people. But like anything, we use it in two ways: negatively or positively. So the same is the case here too. We can look at money from a negative perspective as well as from a positive perspective.

[Stablexcoin]

Absolutely money is power, money is a control force and without it the world can't be a better place and it's money that solves or answer to the basic things of life that is needed. With money you can command things, you can put things in place but it shouldn't be that money is the major criteria which is why they say money is the root of all evil, I don't think they made a mistake in regarding this cause it has mounted high pressure on the individuals making them lost count of how well the money should be spent

If we ask this question to the richest person in the society or to the poorest person, both will have the same answer that indeed money is everything because without money you have neither any status nor any recognition. It is money that makes you recognized or gives you a status and forces people to respect you. Of course, they give it willingly or unwillingly. But if we look at it from the other side, money can also be the root of all evils because money gives a person a sense of power, a feeling of such power that in front of it, he does not consider those with less money or a poor person as poor or does not consider them as human beings. Money can never bring prosperity to people. But like anything, we use it in two ways: negatively or positively. So the same is the case here too. We can look at money from a negative perspective as well as from a positive perspective.

I agree with so much you've said, money is a necessity for any living person. Leaving status behind because there are people who have this money but no status, some people don't care about status or recognition, but money speaks where intellectuals don't fit. With money people buy their way, in government people buy their way, in getting out of trouble the rich know how to make their money speak for them, when the economy goes bad the wealthy are ones to take advantage of making more profits, these are benefits of being rich aside status and recognition.

Money as the root of evil in spite of that to pay for food requires money, shelter and clothing requires money, having a good education requires money, staying healthy requires money what else can we think of that doesn't require money, let their be evil and the money instead of being poor and still harbor evil in mind just for a way to survive.

[Bitcoin Smith]

Money is the biggest lie that we accepted in our life, it is nothing but a paper of different colors from different nations and each has it's own value as long as someone believes it has value and can be used to exchange whenever we need.

Whereas bitcoin, gold or even stocks to some extend got the value from the law of demand and supply which is not built on trust but with the emotions and the scarcity which is why if you want to escape from this rigged game you need to understand how the centralized system works. I too agree we can't sustain without the fiat money but if we do that once we realize it will bring a different perception about what is money is.

[Josefjix]

What is your point?

money makes the world go round?

I was thinking the statement would go this way,
"The world makes money go round" not the other way round. This comes into my perspective that money is circulatory and has to meet everyone to get involved in it by interchanging from one hand to another making money going round the world.

The fact that a citizen needs to convert money to other currency before flying to other countries for the usage is also a sign that world makes money go round, from one currency to another.

[Yokkattannee]

What is your point?

money makes the world go round?

Yes, that is the expression for now, money is circulating from that country to the destination country, with different currencies and the point is that money is exchanged to be valid in that country, like people working abroad to make money, of course the money must be exchanged before it can be used in that person's country and that is a process that will continue because money makes the world go round.

[harapan]

The most important thing to remember if you desire to generate more money (social capital) is to position yourself within a political climate that embodies your values, and if the group you currently find yourself in does not adequately represent your interests, create your own.

Whether you like it or not, money makes the world go round'. You must compete, but where and how you do it is your choice entirely ...

In your context you're trying to place money as head of everything, yes money make the works go round but you can't be subject to it. And when you spoke about beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, you're trying to say when money is in ones hands that's when it's valued ? Though money is a valuable entity but one don't have to compete inorder to meet up with the money demands.

[davis196]

Whether you like it or not, money makes the world go round'. You must compete, but where and how you do it is your choice entirely ...

I do get the point of the "money makes the world go round" saying, but I don't completely agree with this saying.
To me, a more accurate saying would be "value makes the world go round", because money is just a store of value and a medium of exchange.
Money is just a measurement of the value, that is being produced by the people, who are selling their labor, and by the companies, that are producing goods and services. Money without value is just a piece of paper. Value can exist in the form of money(fiat or crypto), but it can also exist in various other forms(human capital, machines, technology, real estate, financial assets, land, precious metals, oil, natural gas, etc...

[Ullaa]

Money really does come down to trust and shared goalsz, When people are on the same page it's easier to get things done and create value together. I’ve seen how being in the right environment can make all the difference If the people around you don’t match your mindset it’s hard to grow

Sometimes you just have to find or build a space where you actually belong.

[Unknown Op]

What is your point?

money makes the world go round?

Yes, that is the expression for now, money is circulating from that country to the destination country, with different currencies and the point is that money is exchanged to be valid in that country, like people working abroad to make money, of course the money must be exchanged before it can be used in that person's country and that is a process that will continue because money makes the world go round.

Money has full potential for making fans of persons because there are millions of fans on Social media who are because of the credibility of these people. These people have money and fame and people are following them and their respect level is at top . There are many kinds of people in the society because we have to see all kinds of people in the society as society is made by thousands of type of person with different point of view and different believes. But money is important for everybody because it will make us strong in everything.Money has full dominany on people who are materialistic people and most of the people are materialistic and they judge us by our money.