Tuesday, June 6, 2017

It's impossible for humans to have a healthy relationship with money

Most people, at some point in their life, will inevitable have some misconstrued relationship with finances. This is not to say every person will have a financial hardship, some people may have the pleasure of going through life without ever having to worry about money. Despite the yearly inflation of; approximately 3.5% a year, the rising price of college tuition, increased housing market, constant changes to the tax laws, every person will have an unsavory relationship with finances at some point. All religious believes aside, as human beings, we will experience certain emotions triggered by our biochemical make-up as a component of our survival mechanism, deeply ingrained in us as Richard Dawkins references in the “Selfish Gene.” So why is it that no human can have a healthy relationship with finances? Ludwig Von Mises in, “The theory of money and credit” establishes the perplexity behind the bartering or trading systems. The tangibles and intangibles are broken down to a common denominator simply based on one’s own perceived value of those particular goods and/ or services. Now, armed with the information that a monetary system is simply a boiled down version of utilitarianism, why do intellectual homo sapiens still have a large miscorrelation with fiduciary literary, responsibility, and realism? Our natural fallacies guide us to the jaws of capital vices commonly referred to as the, “seven deadly sins” largely pontificated by Evagrius Ponticus. These virtues are so entangled one must comprehend and encumber each virtue as an idiosyncratic notion, as well as an assemblage of disillusion caused as a result of envy. Envy of lustful behavior infamously quoted as, “first you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women.” Thus, far half of the vices have been briefly covered, yet no recognition of cardinal virtues has been mentioned. Once a man reaches the summit of their monetary world pride is assumed to be achieved. Gluttonous characteristics emerge from the cracks, gluttony of hoarding the utilitarianism bestowed upon him or lavishing in compensatory tangibles or intangibles. Simultaneously both have the capacity to generate wrath. Unless the man is dethroned from the peak of his financial pinnacle, a sense of laudability will inevitably bloom, and become deeply enrooted in the maturate of sloth. There is simply no plausible rationalization that any person can avoid an unhealthy relationship with finances.

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