Money is essential: it’s what makes things happen!
Make the world go around/round
idiom
To be extremely important, so that many ordinary events could not happen without it:
Love/Money makes the world go round.
Cambridge Dictionary
An old man was selling eggs on the street, a rich woman stopped by and
She asked him, ‘How much are you selling the eggs for?’
The old seller replied, ‘$0.25 an egg, Madam.
‘She said to him, ‘I will take 6 eggs for $1.25 or I will leave.’
The old seller replied, ‘Come take them at the price you want. Maybe, this is a good beginning because I have not been able to sell even a single egg today.
‘She took the eggs and walked away feeling she has won. She got into her fancy car and went to a posh restaurant with her friend. There, she and her friend, ordered whatever they liked. They ate a little and left a lot of what they ordered. Then she went to pay the bill. The bill costed her $45.00, she gave $50.00 and asked the owner of the restaurant to keep the change.
This incidence might have seemed quite normal to the owner but, very painful to the poor egg seller.
The point is,
why do we always show we have the power when we buy from the needy ones?
And why do we get generous to those who do not even need our generosity?
My mother used to buy simple goods from poor people at high prices, even though she did not need them. Sometimes she even used to pay extra for them. I got concerned by this act and asked her why does she do so?
Then my mother replied,
“It is a charity wrapped with dignity, my child.”
Steve Jobs… He died a billionaire at the age of 56.
And his last words make us think about the meaning of life…
– After all, wealth is just a life experience I’ve had the opportunity to know. At this moment, as I lay sick in bed reminiscing my entire life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth I achieved are insignificant and lack higher meaning in the face of impending death…
So, take my advice and be courteous and considerate of others. As we get older, we become smarter and we gradually realize that a $30 watch and a $300 watch show the same time…
Whether we wear $30 or $300 purses, the same amount of money can fit in both..
Whether we drive a $150,000 car or a $30,000 car, the journey and the distance are the same, we always reach the same destination.
The authenticity of others pain
- in economics we learned to quantify and dehumanize suffering,
- we learn that poverty, inequality, unemployment are unavoidable,
- that so long as we reach equilibrium people who live on pennies a day are somehow better off,
- in social studies and sociology we learn to treat others suffering as an academic exercise to ponder their pain from a distance,
- we critique structural inequality and oppression.
Excerpt from A beautiful speech by Jonathan Roberts | Harvard Commencement 2017
De echtheid van andermans pijn
- In de economie leerden we lijden te kwantificeren en te ontmenselijken,
- We leren dat armoede, ongelijkheid en werkloosheid onvermijdelijk zijn,
- dat zolang we een evenwicht bereiken, mensen die leven van weinig geld op de een of andere manier beter af zijn,
- in sociale studies en sociologie leren we het lijden van anderen te behandelen als een academische oefening om op afstand over hun pijn na te denken,
- bekritiseren we structurele ongelijkheid en onderdrukking.
1 Harvard Male Orator Jonathan Roberts | Harvard Commencement 2017
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