What Should Money NOT Be Able To Buy?
In a world where you can pay for a homeless guy to camp you a spot at the front of the line before the release of a new iPhone, it's difficult to imagine what a MasterCard is not good for. You don't need to look very far to notice that money has a way of seeping into every inch of our society these days, sort of like fidget spinners. We are more spoiled for choice than ever before; I am currently standing in front of a vending machine trying to decide on which flavor I want today, even though there is no real way of really knowing if these products are as advertised or whether they're actually the used panties of 50 year old men who have a side gig in standing in line for you when a new iPhone is released.
The existence of markets in writing heartfelt eulogies, renting naked accountants, attending church on your behalf, hiring someone to apologize to the family members after they discover you'd bought your eulogy online etc. makes you wonder if there's anything money can't buy? Or are there things that money shouldn't be able to buy?
What Money Can't Buy?
If your first instinct is money can't buy happiness, then I encourage you to read a previous post of mine on this very topic. It's way past it's payout period by now so I can't be assed finding the link for you. Not unless you pay me $50 that is; so the link to the article about whether or not money can buy happiness is certainly not something that money can't buy.
Generally money has difficulty buying things whose value is eroded by the presence of payment itself. Trying to buy true love with money is like trying to wipe your ass with your own shit: you're introducing a variable that diminishes the very thing you seek, assuming you were seeking a clean ass in the latter case if not the former. Likewise, if I had a kid I probably wouldn't request him to pay me for the right to have his drawings stuck on the fridge with his earnings from working at the sweatshop. It can't buy things whose value depends on the absence of money itself.
And unicorns. Money can't buy unicorns
What Money Shouldn't Be Able to Buy?
Would it be acceptable to buy the right to speed on the road? How about pushing to the front of a kidney transplant list or have exclusive access to life saving medical operations? When technology allows, should the rich be able to select genes that can enhance the intelligence and physical attributes of their children, or even cheat death entirely by buying immortality? Should my ex be allowed to pay a lawyer to sue me just because the assassin I had hired failed his job?
Many of these examples make us uneasy, but why? What are the moral limits to what should be purchasable with money?
One of the things money CAN buy is a nice mattress
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel argues that this is because monetary incentives don't always align with promoting certain values. He cites an example where in an effort to promote more reading among school children, students were offered $2 for each book they completed reading. They found that the students did indeed read more books, but that they also read shorter books and when the money stopped, so did the reading. Not sure whether this would have worked when I was a student: I was already too busy learning to read braille by running my fingers along my pimply face.
Similarly a study in Switzerland found that residents were more reluctant to accept a local nuclear waste dump if financial incentives were offered. They were more willing to act out of a sense of civic duty, rather than have that magnanimity diminished via a bribe.
There are certain social goods and practices that money is ill suited to promoting as its very presence can compromise the meaning of these goods and practices. Imagine how it'd work out for me at the doctor's office if I offered him an extra $5 in cash to give me a prostate exam?
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel prefers 4 fingers in his prostate exams
Free market is a wonderful creation of humankind but it does have its inherent inefficiencies and isn't quite universally applicable. For now, I suppose I ought to be grateful that Apple isn't yet popular enough to require a homeless guy to camp you a spot in a line to hire another homeless guy to camp you a spot to get you the new iPhone.
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Love. Of course.
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very true :)
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one's soul
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haha definitely true
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Let's get the serious response out of the way.
I liked your use of the extreme examples of what money could possibly buy (speeding, transplants, better genetic code, etc.) But honestly that already exists to a lesser extent. Children of the rich have access to better food, better education, and better medical services. So even if they don't have a genetic advantage, their environment has so many advantages that it can trump the genetic advantages that a person without money happened to be born with.
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ya it's true, I was meant to go from that to show that in many countries there are premium lanes where you can go faster if you pay, the wealthy are already able to genetically remove certain diseases and/or genes that increase susceptibility to cancer, but I ruined it with that stupid joke about assassinating my ex at the end and couldn't bring it back :p
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@trafalgar I though the joke was great! hahahaha! Great minds think alike lol!
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haha thanks a lot firepower :)
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Ruined it? Or made it awesome?
No man you left some room for reader participation.
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I loved that joke too. I love it when simply reading something can make me sit and laugh all by myself. Great job!
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haha thank you everlove
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Thing is, those people already have set a "standard". A base level for their happiness, comparing with their own community. This is how rich people are often quite miserable.
If you want to be truly happy then move to a place than everybody else has less than you do.
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@hanshotfirst summed it up nicely. I had similar thoughts as I read through the article! :)
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This is inevitable, right? Even if we know that rich people will get better access to healthcare, education, etc - we can at least try to mitigate / minimize it.
It seems too idealistic / utopian to hope for a society where wealth infers NO benefit regarding the important stuff of life.
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Money can buy Steem = Steem rises = sell steem = earn more money = buy happiness and live happily ever after. Jk. Another good article @trafalgar , upvote.
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thanks a lot freedomnation
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what happens if Steem ROCKETS
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Then we need a parachute for landing.
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ill buy 2 BBQs :DD
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You are really optimistic about life.
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or irrealistic maybe
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Money certainly changes the dynamics. Private prisons for example I think of as incredibly scary. Now people have an incentive to lock others up.
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yes this is very true, incentives dont align well there at all
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No such thing as private prisons when they are illegal to operate without government permission.
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Thank you for making this ever more vivid.
The line of what is private is blur when government needs to grant its permission for everything but even more so because government can forcefully take away any previously granted right.
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There is always an incentive to lock people up.
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I appreciate how your posts somehow manage to be educational.
One of the biggest problem with money is that money seems to make money so the less you have, the harder it is to make.
I was thinking of a way to pay you to pay me even more, but the only way I could outsmart you into doing that would be if I had more money than you to begin with, which I don't.
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Yes, the disparity between the rich and poor is exacerbated in this way
after a certain point, money just creates more money, so the rich effortlessly pull ahead over time making inequality worse
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Congratulations @trafalgar!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following category:
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Great Stuff!! FULL STEEM AHEAD!!!!
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thank you :)
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seem to remember Steve Jobs ignoring doctors advice in relation to his cancer for a year or more in favour of non traditional remedies, but after that not working and at the pleading of his friends and family he returned to the doctor and was told he needed a transplant.
I don't quite remember the details but to get a transplant quickly I think he bought homes in multiple states to apply, and proved he had a private jet ready so he could get to the hospital within x hours.
As we know the transplant was too late and he died. Not sure the point of my half remembered story, it just came to mind
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haha moral of the story is try not to die like steve jobs
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Or just, try not to die
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This! :)
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Amazing post! ☆☆☆☆☆😎
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thank you very much :)
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You're welcome.
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Wealth could not buy you happiness, friendship, health, love...
But it can help you to make these things to happen easier
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probably, but not as much as most people think
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Money cannot buy happiness true, but in today's world ,there's not much happiness without money for necessities. Everything in moderation works best in my view.
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nice post @ trafalgar
upvoted followed resteem
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thank you
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This is a solid question, but more importantly, money CAN buy large flat screen televisions. For under $1000, you can even buy TWO flat screens. Let's focus on what we can do with the American dollar! ;-)
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haha that's true, they're getting bigger these days
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Good story from you @trafalgar
Upvote & Resteem ^_^
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thanks barvon
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^_^
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Wonderfully written, as always. I agree with the points you stated. People shouldn't be allowed to buy leverage or things that would make their lives better at the expense of others. If we were to continue to subscribe to that old way of thinking, then how the hell do expect to progress as a society.
In the end though, it all boils down to perspective. What's "right" for us doesn't necessarily mean that it's the right thing for everyone. It's the subjective nature that often leads to contention.
I like how you put the transplant bribing thing as an example, since it's so prevalent in today's world. Let's say a rich man is dying, and he's willing to fund an entire building if he gets to the front of the line. In the bigger picture, the funding could potentially save hundreds more lives but at the cost of the ones he would overtake. Just by looking at the example, it's easy to surmise that cutting the line for whatever reason is "wrong," but yeah, the world isn't just 1s and 0s. The gray area in which we live in forces us to question everything.
It's a very divisive topic for sure, so it's great that you brought it up so eloquently. I find it funny that the weird stuff you enumerated exists in reality even though they sound stranger than fiction haha!
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yes that's a very nuanced analysis
I do agree with a sort of utilitarian or consequentialist approach, but it needs to encompass a very wide set of consequences, not just the lives lost and saved in the narrow sense in your example, but how society would react if this would be the norm. It's difficult to say for certain with these things, as you said they are morally gray and complex
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Oh yeah, no, I didn't mean to point out just that one metric. Because of the time and space constraint, I only stated the first thing that came to my head. The complex nature of it that I mentioned entails the very wide set of consequences that need to be considered. I'm sorry if it came out that I was just looking at that one metric. It's just one of many things to consider, I just wanted to point out a sort of contrarian thought as the representative to all those other scenarios.
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a baby
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you can have my nephew for $4.99 incl postage
he's annoying :)
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for sure we cannot buy happinesss...but its also true we cannot have happiness without money..as we are attached with lots of materialistic things in our life. for example you are writing this post to gain more money
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yes the first part is true, some subsistence level income is necessary
second part is less true, or maybe truer in a less direct way, the money I make in my posts isn't too much for me, but hopefully i can show that non steemit/crypto news/charts posts can do well here and encourage others to write broader material :)
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yes its true crypto currency news makes here more profit than all others. it seems to be in more trend or people are more interested in crypto currency investment
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I don't think money can buy genuine kindness and honesty..... you can pretty much buy anything now, but you can't pay to have genuine human kindness at your side. Xxx
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haha yup defintiely true :)
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There are things that money could not buy such as those that includes emotions, feelings, personalities. Money is something but not everything. We needed money, of course, that's the reason why we are working hard everyday to survive in this world but that doesn't mean without it we could not live. We might suffer in its absence but our whole personality does not rely on it.
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yes the there are limitations of money and certain things will always be out of reach for money, like those you just listed
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Thought provoking. Thank you. Sorry my response isn't better. Still thinking.
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glad you had a read, hope you enjoyed it
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Money should never entitle you to be able to abuse others.
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Yes, very true
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Money CANNOT buy you TIME. This is from a guy who wasted years in a relationship that didn't work in the end; ending up wasting Years of my precious time; Years I could have spend doing anything instead of being a workaholic working his ass hard to have a family.
Money will never be able to buy you the time you've wasted.
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this is very true, thanks for the advice
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Consider also that most children would want more quality time with their parents rather than money. Most workaholic parents cannot supply the time, and end up supplying the money in the form of toys, bribes, counseling bills, cars, and other incentives.
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Money cant buy happiness but it can buy a replacement for that.
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ya i got a blow up doll being delivered as we speak :)
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Congratulations @trafalgar, you've deserved a dedication!
https://steemit.com/comic/@lighteye/b-c-stands-for-blockchain-may-08-2017-cliche
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LOL at the iPhone joke!
I thought this post was going to be way darker when reading the title of the post eg.. assassinations, human organs, exotic animals, sex slaves, lol!
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haha all my posts are satirical
sometimes they address fairly serious issues, but there's always some cheap toilet humor in there
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The most important thing money shouldn't be able to buy is people. Simple as that and summing up pretty much everything, from love, to sex, over to business relationsships and friendships. The biggest harm to humanity is the fact that money buys politics which is ultimately mostly negatively affecting the world in nearly all kinds of aspects of life and environment.
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yes that would be a common denominater
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"it will buy you a companion, it won't buy you a friend"
https://steemit.com/money/@natxlaw/our-steem-dreams-what-is-it-we-all-hope-to-get-from-the-new-cryptocurrency-socialmedia-paradigm
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haha that's true
i already got a companion
she's my cat :)
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you should post pics, I've never seen cat pics on the internet.
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This is actually a text about human nature and morals, not so much about money, except as a symbol of power over others. Well written. If I haven't followed you since I came here, I surely would now! :)
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thank you very much
I generally just write satirical pieces
sometimes the issues aren't trivial, but they'll always be a few punchlines thrown in
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Oh, your writing is far from "just satirical pieces". And I mean it, not as a flattery, but a fact..!
One of my few favs here! :)
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My husband loves to garden and is planting one behind an apartment not far from where we live. He is showing the children how to garden. Money does spoil things as he gave them change for helping.
When they showed up the next day they wanted to know how much money they would get. He told them he should charge them for teaching them to garden.
You probably guessed it they do not help anymore. They want money.
:)
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haha yup i think this is a perfect example of the misalignment of money as an incentive
you can see it everywhere in society
even right here on steemit, it's literally everywhere
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Nice post. Thank you
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thanks for checking it out
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I'll pay you 49$ if you find me the link to your recent post, deal?
I found that in today's society it's really hard for most to speak openly about money. It became a tool to measure ones successes in life, but is it so?
Money gives me the opportunity to live my life the way I want. For example when I want to travel, money is a tool. There are ways go travel without money, but as I said: money is a tool that makes things easier. While money can't buy you true happiness you can pay for having great experiences that makes you happy. I was a happy person with less money, I was a happy person with much money. It's no the money, it's you who decide whether you appreciate the little things in life or not.
btw, anyone want to camp in front of Apple for me? /ironic
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Thanks for taking the time to read one of my posts
no deal, the price of steem has gone up, so it's $5000 now for the link :p
Yeah money can make things easier, but it's not always the best motivator, nor can it get you everything. As a species our survival required us to evolve the need to constantly seek satisfaction, and one of the pre requisites of constantly seeking satisfaction is to never be satisfied
I run a homeless shelter outside every apple chain store :p
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Unborn baby body parts
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haha, hopefully
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Now to my real comments:
Thank you once again for your valuable information on bathroom technique. As we have discussed at length, for years I was doing it all wrong!
A second big thank you for stating that money can not buy unicorns. In my house, we look to you as the authority on all things. Therefore,using your statement alone, I was able to finally end this debate with my daughter. "If trafalgar said it... it must be true." Her dreams are crushed. Thank you.
What did your face say when you read it in high school?
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haha I'm Chinese so I had to read it from right to left, but usually it said it wasn't ripe to be popped yet
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There is your next post. Zit popping.
You're welcome.
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That's me, always tackling the big issues
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Great Article !! Money not ble to buy Respect, Purpose in life, Trust, Inner peace,Natural beauty.. :)
Upvoted and followed
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thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it
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nice....your post deserve my upvote and resteem....
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@rafalgarI........!!think what can not be bought with money is one's pleasure or the "happiness" of one's soul.
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haha yes i agree
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so do I,,,,,,,,,!!!
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Money can't buy True love , compassion and peace, be of good cheer.
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haha well said
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I think @nayzer would enjoy your posts as well. 😊
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The US presidency?
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lol
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"Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail". Kinky Friedman
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haha nice quote :) and too true
I've got a cat though, only ever pays any attention to me when she's hungry :p
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Hahahaha No food no love ;-)
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Money should not be able to buy immortality -- something that appears to be in the cards, in the not-so-distant future.
I can't even imagine how torn humanity will become when (if) the rich have access to the fountain of youth as the poor and middle-class die of disease and old age like the pre-immortality tech generations before them.
You think the mega rich have an edge over the lower 99% today, just wait until they add this weapon into their arsenal.
At some point, it seems to me that a line has to be drawn as to how much extra choices having more money allows us, and this power to never age might just be it.
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yes, we're seriously heading in that direction very quickly
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cracked myself with this one. :D
On a second note, if you think about it, money today is really transfer of debt. We are all owning shit to each other and just exchange those papers. So in essence, the only thing money can't buy, is value itself.
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haha thanks
hmm I suppose while it's not inherently debt itself it does facilitate transfers of debt
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Well, I think that's (mainly) all it does! check this out
http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/
The whole planet seems to owe money beyond our means.
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hmm but i suppose the more pertinent stat is the percentage of world gpd that that represents and whether the rate of at which it's increasing or decreasing
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GPD is problematic in measuring economic growth
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2014/12/why-gdp-is-not-an-accurate-measure-of-economic-growth/
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We should pay children to read books.
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I suppose it's better than not reading at all
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Excellent post,lots to think about.
The great and brilliant Spike Milligan once said that money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.
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haha i'm sold!
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You don't always get what you pay for also! I have a cheap mattress and am getting the best sleeps on it! Great post!
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haha i think mattresses are a massive scam honestly
thanks annhoyblog :)
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True Dat! Mattresses cost only a little to make and are really expensive to buy!
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Good post. Upvoted, Followed and resteemed
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Indeed the money can not buy happiness, but sometimes it can replace something that can make us happy
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haha ya that's true :)
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Money is a way to measure value on goods and services. In the world of material goods and services it can buy just about any material goods or material services. What the society values determines what they will pay. That can be and is tampered with by those who seek control but basically it is still the rule. By elevating the consciousness of a culture what they value will be more beneficial for everyone. But money does rule... At least that is what I see. As usual very thought provoking post nicely presented. Great discussion also. Thanks. Resteeming and posting the link on Facebook.
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thank you very much jiva34
yes I don't think society would have made much progress with a marketplace
but I do think there are places with market inefficiencies, like the classics: monopoly, asymmetrical information, externalities etc
Michael Sandels view here is fairly enlightening, should catch his youtube talks if you're at all interested
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thanks will take a look
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Great Post!
(I was actually tempted to leave it there just so I could have @meesterboom put up his hilarious animation about it...then realized it's many hours later in Scotland and he might be in bed so I better not)
I find it increasingly difficult to determine the right's and wrong's in terms of what people buy with money. There was a time I was incensed by the idea that there were those who could purchase the front of the line for a transplant or buy themselves out of a murder charge. Lately though, I've decided that unless I've walked in these shoes myself, do I really have the right to judge? If I had the money for example, and my son needed a transplant to live, would I be above buying his place at the front of the line?
After thoughts like that one I decided the only person's actions I can truly judge are my own.
It is nice to imagine living in a cashless society, where there no longer would be a monetary incentive for such things, but the simple fact is we don't live in one and unless there is a global awakening on a massive scale the chances are that we're unlikely to in my lifetime. Though we might continue moving toward it and we do have the ability to plant the seeds for future generations.
I love your posts, they crack me up, keep doing what you're doing :)
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haha thanks a lot dreemit
ya i like @meesterboom's stuff a lot too
you make a good point about putting yourself in the other position, it's likely that most of us would capitulate and do whatever needs to be done for ourselves and our loved ones :)
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"renting naked accountants"- Any way you could prove me for the link to this? The fact that I'm an accountant, and want money to hire a homeless guy to do people's taxes so I don't have to, has nothing to do with this request. I'm asking "for a friend".
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It's true, in the sense that it's true that I found this stuff when I was researching for the post, but I lost the link
the other stuff there are also true, renting ppl to attend church or apologise for you etc lol
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Hats off to those people who recognized a need and found a way to create a market for it. I wonder if it would be legal to have someone else who do jail time for you, if they are willing. All the white collar criminals who didn't want to spend time in Club Fed could pay a person who is down on their luck to serve their time. The conditions and amenities in Club Fed would be better than the circumstances many people endure as part of their daily life.
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haha its easier for an Asian guy like me to pull that off as all i have to do is to get any other Asian guy to agree and everybody else would be none the wiser
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People selling their services reminds me of the movie "Gattaca". I'm not much of a science fiction guy, and I'm not sure if it would be classified as sci-fi, more futuristic, but I loved that movie. Really gets you thinking, especially when you remember it was filmed back in 1997.
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ah yes i've seen that movie, pretty interesting
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Great post! :)
Money can't buy unicorns. That's very sad but true.
Money shouldn't buy votes for elections, for example.
Money can buy happiness to a certain extent. Maybe it shouldn't, but let's be honest. The more money we have, the less we have to stress about it.
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haha i like how you said shouldn't rather than can't with respect to election votes :)
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Classic - can't buy me love!!!
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you can buy someone who pretends to love you for a while, esp if youre really really old
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This will be (cargo cult)/(simple sex), not love!
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4 things to remember about money (digital, fiat or metal):
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I suppose immortals are pretty content
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Have you not watched any episode of Highlander? Immortals can be quite miserable people! :)
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A great article. I love having discussions on this topic as i'm a firm believer that money can significantly improve your happiness in life. Also actually laughed out loud for the first time in a long while from reading an online article about the "four fingers" bit.
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haha thanks a lot rymlen :)
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I guess money can't buy itself 'cos by buying itself, there'll be nothing left? LOL. I'm going to philosophy with this. haha.
Ooorr.... money can't buy itself 'cos it can't - only humans can.
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haha a lot of family fortunes answers here
i remember at the fare once they sold brand new $1 coin for $2 lol
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Oh yeah.. hmm... I guess all can really be bought by money.
We humans are really great at inventing things XD
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integrity
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lol everyones answer this like an episode of family fortunes
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i was going to say more about the unicorn lol .. but refrained
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haha unicorns are awesome :p
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Money can buy a house but not a home
Following!
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thank you very much
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Money cannot directly buy happiness but having money is important for hapiness and being poor and without money can make you miserable. Currently writing articles this on my page if you are interested :)
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thanks a lot
i'll have a look
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"The existence of markets in writing heartfelt eulogies, renting naked accountants, attending church on your behalf, hiring someone to apologize to the family members after they discover you'd bought your eulogy online etc. makes you wonder if there's anything money can't buy? Or are there things that money shouldn't be able to buy?"
I love your humour
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haha thanks a lot kus-knee, you're one of the few who reads it and one of the fewer who gets me :)
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Money can't buy lost time
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ya, I can waste my time pretty well without spending a cent
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Votes...
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haha that's a good one
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Money can not buy a TIME.
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Apparently it can't buy a cover for one of these...
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ahh yes, just wide enough for an x wing to enter
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wooh!!! just one hour and this post has already made $216.
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money can't buy good writing skills, so I need people to upvote my stuff anyway :)
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I follow you exclusively for your good writing skills, well placed levity, and broader topic choice than cryptocurrency. It's a real pleasure to read your posts and see them doing well. Thank you!
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thank you very much, so kind of you to say so
yes I go out of my way to write about broader topics in the hopes to be more appealing to mainstream newcomers
I know this stuff is less popular here right now, but hopefully other writers can see that you can earn a decent following, make good money without spamming charts and crypto news all day
I take my time to research and write this stuff and only post once every 2 days to leave the reward pool for others =)
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Being pretty new myself (around 2 weeks active) the rewards aren't huge, but I look at it like I'm writing about the things important to me and if I earn even a few cents that's more than if I was posting it on Facebook lol.
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it's a very healthy attitude, i think if this blockchain really takes off though, most people here will be very early adopters and in turn end up doing quite well
welcome to the platform jrhughes
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Great article. Following you.
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thank you very much
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Excellent post @trafalgar
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thank you :)
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Greetings @trafalgar. I found your post through @tonyr's post on recommended Steemians to follow. So, here I am. This is the first post I've read of yours, and I love your style already. You have a great sense of humor and I love the subject that you picked--some things I have considered through time, but definitely hadn't considered writing about it. Your choice of pictures too is primo. Very well put together post. That was great for a laugh!!
Unconditional love cannot be bought with money. It's pretty creepy some of the things that can. Thanks for giving us something to think about. I appreciate your engagement.
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thank you very much for taking the time to read my post =)
checked out your stuff, you write interesting articles
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A great read and definitely worth my time. Thanks for making a visit my way as well.
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There's always someone better off than you, and always someone beneath you on a huge sliding scale, except the very top person and the very bottom person. I'm sure it would be somewhat easy to identify the person at the top, but the reverse is completely lost on this world. Those at the bottom are hidden, overlooked, ignored, and invisible, and the numbers are staggering. Man this world sucks sometimes!
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this is true, although i'm quite optimistic that overall human experience has improved since the dawn of our species, it's not guaranteed, inequality is growing and we do need to better address it
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Creo que hay un solo refran para este articulo : " El dinero no hace la felicidad, pero la compra " .
Muy interesante.
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Money is just a tool to live this life what most important is love, joy and happiness :D...beautifully written blog BTW
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thank you very much, hope you enjoyed it
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Money can only buy illusions, it should not be able to buy happiness, love nor life itself. Think about kids that die because their parents are not able to pay the medical bill. But the reality we live does not take this into account, our reality is powered by money, electricity and fossil fuels. Money is debt and buying is enslavement, only my two cents. BTW nice post.
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yes it's crept into every inch of our lives
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I appreciate your perspective. Most of all, I appreciate the hilarious way you put it. I will be looking out for more laughs from you, Thanks for the first.
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thanks a lot, most of my posts are pretty similar to this
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I dream of riding a unicorn! I would even buy 3 with my SBD if I could and go broke 👻
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haha unicorns are awesome :p
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Money can't buy you happiness but it can definitely lead you to it great article
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thank you kionb24
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Money changes people.
The greed of money is endless.
We do not know the ugly figure of money.
I think it is all money.
But money is just what we need.
I'd rather steam than money.
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haha yes me too
Steem is so interesting, it truly is a wonderful platform
I think it's very possible we'll see large scale mainstream adoption of Steem :)
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Steemit is the best platform.
It is a novel idea that the community is money.
So I invest a lot of time and effort in steemit.
Let us all strive for the future of steemit. thank you.
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Money can not buy you time. So often we trade time for money in that trade we will always lose and find ourselves shorthanded.
We need to trade time for friendship love and service this will add the most value to the 24 hours that each of us has in a single day.
You can learn much about a man by the way he spends his time.
Best,
Isaac
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this is very true :)
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"willing to act out of a sense of civic duty"
I couldn't agree more.
It's funny. In school they had the swear jar to take your quarter if you said a bad word. But there was never an example that rewards. So maybe that contributed to my perception of money. I lost a lot of video game quarters to the swear jar.
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haha which probably encouraged you to swear more if anything
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Great article. Seems commenting here is like typing through molasses. In many theme parks they implemented a front of the line fast pass system after they realized rich people were renting handicapped people for front of line access. Costs as much as entry, but the amount of time saved makes it worth it, and the hate glares you get as you stroll past the same people thrice. Unfortunately ruined the job market for handicapped escorts.
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haha great analogy
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somewhere i agree with the hotvines comment
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haha thanks mate
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wooowww....your amazing woment...like this sister
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Thanks loved it ❤️
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I have questions @trafalgar; Do you believe in God? Do you believe that you exist?
If so, can I buy your faith in God? Denouncing his existince in your mind, that you don't believe in him?
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Happiness. If you think money is going to make you happy it wont. In the short term it may, but as the years go by and you become more and more distant with your less sucessful freinds, money becomes a curse. Trust me I know from experience .
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Nice Posting! Just upvoted and followed you, can you please do the same for me?
Thanks a million!
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So true thanks for sharing :)
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hahahahaha
Gotta love the prof. Sandel reference in your post, but maybe he will think about the moral side of murder in case he read this.
Congratz on the content, really fun read. =)
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money cant buy happiness :) <3
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I think if we could get the most money into the best peoples hands in the future, the choices made on where money is used would improve exponentially.
Thanks for this article. I love the cryptos and the metals. I spent several hours putting this mining stock investigation together. I hope you find it of value. I think silver and gold may be ready to start moving up again very soon. This is an article I wrote breaking down some mining companies, the better of which should outperform the metals themselves by a wide margin. https://steemit.com/money/@motowngold/i-think-gold-and-silver-are-staging-for-a-run-here-are-some-mining-stock-ideas
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Very nice posting
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Please Vote my posting 😊😊
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YOU GOT MY UPVOTE! FOLLOW ME @kid4life AND I FOLLOW BACK ;) I POST ALL SORT OF STUFF! CHEERS
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Creative. Let's see here...
Enjoy!
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It's so easy everyone know this...
You can buy bed but not sleep
You can buy clock but not time
You can buy book but not knowledge
You can buy a position but not respect
And of course most important you can not buy home and love. What i wanted to say money is just a tool, most important are we :)
Have a great day everyone!!!
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Love was already mentioned and that was number 1 on my list. Respect is another one.
Many people have respect for people because of their money. Lots of people with money expect respect from other people. I am not one of them. Respect needs to be earned and cannot be bought.
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I wish money could buy me a BBQ
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Hello!
Personally, my opinion ... you can not buy RESPECT! True respect... which can only be earned by one's actions, will or character! If a guy has a "bunch of greens", it does not mean that he is worthy of respect. Something like this...
P.S. Sorry for my English :)
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You can buy true respect from other people. You can have it by feeding them, giving them shelter, care, giving them assurance of good living, giving them security, giving them respect. All thru dedication, perseverance, patience and lastly MONEY.
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Not agree :) It will be an action, thanks to this you will earn respect! Money in this case - the method! But this is only my opinion, it can be erroneous. I just believe in humanity... maybe in vain?
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Hi @trafalgar, great post!! Upvoted!
I think money should be able to buy anything that is up for sale...
But I also think that money cannot buy the most important things in life: health, love and intelligence!
I love these debates posts and tried to start a few of my own, I would love to hear what you think if you had the time:
Economics Specialists
Value of Education
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Money can't buy peace of mind, true 💖💖💖. Hahahaha...
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