Money

I've been pondering about the concept of that thing called money. Money has been around for thousands of years now and has been sought by many. Who wouldn't want money anyway? Money gets us nice things - gourmet food, fancy clothes, and luxurious cars.

But how exactly does it get us nice things? What is it anyway?

In my currently potentially ignorant point of view, money is the representation of value. In the olden days, people only traded their goods and services with other goods and services. I'll give you my cow if you make me a boat. I'll give you fruits in exchange for a nice spear to hunt with.

Eventually, some clever person thought about how inefficient it is to continue operating that way given that we have many needs and wants and we can only trade so much things that are of equal value for our goods and services. Thus, money was born. We can now exchange the value we give out efficiently.

Lately, however, I've been noticing something that doesn't seem right. A humongous chunk of all the money in the world belongs to a very small percentage of all the people in the world. The system seems to be broken, in the assumption that the system is designed to serve everyone.

Some people have more money than they know what to do with, while some people are working to the bone just to eat for the day. Are the rich people's efforts more valuable and not easily replaceable than the ones doing manual labor which makes us give more of the value we give out to them? Possible. Do humans deserve to be hungry? No.

I once asked a person, "why don't we just print more money?" He said "because it doesn't work that way." Just a side note, motherfucker, if someone asks you for a reason, give a sufficient one. Elaborate on why it doesn't work that way.

So like any other person searching for answers, I googled it. It says that cash doesn't have intrinsic value. Printing money doesn't add value. It merely represents the value that society is bringing about in this world.

But then, value is relative. Why is a person in a 1st world country being paid more than a person doing the same job in a 3rd world country?

It makes me wonder, why don't we just pretend we all have a lot of money? We invented it in the first place. This way, everyone could have shelter, everyone could have a table inside that shelter, and everyone could have food in that table.

I wonder who's going to be against this. Are the food producers and house makers simply gonna raise their price? What if we all simply just agree to the price limit of basic raw food that's given by nature for free?

I think there are enough resources in the world. The issue is rooted in their poor accessibility with which, I believe, with the right amount of compassion, can be resolved.