Money does not give you true happiness.
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” (Benjamin Franklin) As Franklin states, if money ever did bring us happiness then we truly would not be happy because it is human nature to always want more, we can never be satisfied with what we have. Money ends up corrupting us so far that it takes away all our friends and everything we care about. In a sense we become a vacuum sucking up everything we care about to fill a void that the evil corruption of money has left. In short terms, money can never make you truly happy.
There is an old proverb that, “Money is the root of all evil”. This is true because everywhere you turn where there is misery money has been a prime factor. Take for example the recent stock market crash that happened. Money people started a pandemonium when they saw how most of the banks stocks were dropping. People have invested so much money and time into their stocks just to see it get washed away. Unemployment rates have gone up because banks can not pay their employers or give loans. Therefore people become scared of the future and how will they survive. Soon people will resort to crime and illegal activities to make ends meet. Violence may soon spread and the streets will never be safe. This may as well continue until we are just a shell of the people we once were. All of this misery, anguish, and corruption originated from money. Through all this there are people who oppose this idea.
There are people who think that money can never corrupt you or bring you to your downfall. They think that money can only bring you joy and happiness. The reason they think this way is because they know what money can give them. Money can buy many of the material possession that people need, it can give us the basic necessities we need to live. It can pay for our educational and medical needs as well. Some people go as far as saying that money can give you love because you always need money in a relationship. Lastly, there are arguments that say money can not corrupt; it is just a form of exchange between people. Therefore the only things that are corrupted are people, not money. All of these statements are good arguments but they are not stable.
Money can be a good thing when we need to buy all the basic necessities we need to live, but when we want more that is when it corrupts us. We may need more money because of soaring gas prices or more health coverage. When we ask for the basic necessities we always need more money to cover every little detail. Money is just another word for power and when humans have even the smallest amount of power they always want more, it is in our nature. If we need money to keep our relationship alive then it is not true love, because love does not require the need for money. Some relationships dissipate because their partner cares more about the money then actual person.
Money can never make you truly happy. It is just another form of temptation to bring us to our downfall. In certain cases it can help us, if we only use what we need, but since we are human we can never be satisfied with what we have. Hence this temptation will continue to rule over us taking away our happiness.
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Dave:
• You know I like it when you start with quotes. Good choice.
• “Money ends up corrupting us so far that it takes away all our friends and everything we care about” Not sure I agree with this, kind of bold, without much to support it.
• Peculiar second paragraph. I like the idea of appealing to a modern crisis, it is a good appeal to pathos; however, it is strangely constructed, and you use too many logical fallacies. For example, you quickly jump to the fact that the streets will be full of crooks and illegal activity which I think is taking it a bit far. The idea is good, but the execution is a bit off.
• Dave, the rest of the paper is full of very good ideas, but they come out cluttered. It seems you are trying to tackle too many broad subjects at once. Focus on one singular argument and make sure you finish it. For example you bring up the idea of basic necessities, but it gets muddled in your quick transition to money being power. You need to slow down the argument and I think the best way for you to do that is by having smaller paragraphs.
• I like a lot of your ideas dave, but we need to work on making them clear and easy to understand. I find my head spins a little when I read because you bring up a lot of things, but don’t necessarily finish or connect them well enough. We’ll see if we can hammer it out in the next paper, but I like where your head is at.
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