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= = ="The Role of Money In Our Society"= **by: Anna Marie** = Money runs our world today. Our society today relies on money to make our world go round. All of our greed and want comes from the desire to have the most money and the most fancy things. Whenever we get something nice, we always want something more and we are never satisfied. =

If money were eliminated from our society, than all of the greed and want and selfishness would be gone. That is unrealistic obviously because we need some money for basic survival needs. However, if the excess money were eliminated, then many conflicts and strong emotions towards greed would be eliminated. For example, when many people buy a cell-phone, it cannot just be a simple phone that works to call people; it has to be the expensive multi- function phones that does everything. The want for the newest and best thing there is and people are not satisfied with what they already have. Also, the want to have tons of money like celebrities and have all the things that celebrities have drives our greed as well. To have the jewelry, accessories, clothes, etc. like celebrities drives our greed. I feel like we forget what really matter sometimes. I make myself sometimes think about and remember what is the most important to me in my life, instead of thinking about things that I want to buy or material things that I want to have. I realize that my family and friends are the most important things to me in the world. The importance of them goes above any material thing that I could ever want to have. I know that there will always be a want to have more money in everyone and it is just instinct now that there are people who have so much of it, but I hope that everyone will take time out of their lives to remember what is the most important and block the want for material things out of their minds for some time to think about it. media type="file" key="oped.m4a"