The world According to Money

For some time now I have been sitting back and watching the management of money in the world. And I think a majority of people actually do not know what money actually is and why it came to be used in the first place. So I am going to endeavor to paint a picture of what money was initially used to do and why it becomes a integral part of life, as well as why restricting it’s flow can be exceptionally bad.

The infancy of Money

Money or rather currency has been in use as a means of evaluating work and skills for thousands of years. But really how does it compare to what essentially is to happen?

Here is a scenario to equate how money began to be used and why it was important to life:

We are taken back to a small community of people found on a secluded island. These people are rather industrials and they work to build things within their community, and they see the value of helping each other to better enhance the quality of life. So you have one family that builds things, they love to build structures and are the primary menders and builders in the community. Another fixes things, and mends metals, and yet another works with stone and clay. And on and on the skills expand as each does tasks for another and in turn those tasks are shared. You have farmers, and potters and fisherman and carpenters. And they all exchange skills for another’s services. But as the community grows it is found that there are needs for others and these people are not in the community but in neighboring lands. The only recourse is to communicate with those lands and see if those particular people would come and help out, but then how do the members of the community re-pay these travelers? There needs to be a universal means of exchange that is valued in terms of the skills communicated. And thus money was born and widely used as a means of equating skills done and skills shared. As the community grows skills are traded to money and money is traded for goods and services (skills) and this worked for the most part well.

The Maturity of Money

The global economy is built around the transfer of funds for services (Skills) and thus we use these funds to communicate our thankfulness for offering those skills. However, with the advent of recessions and housing bubbles it has become apparent that people are not totally in understatement of what money actually is. And why over leveraging money is more of a gamble then of a sure thing. Also the lack of payment and exchange of money has pushed the globe into a state of insecurity and placed millions of lives into flux and despair because others have refused to share with them their skills.

It is said that money is the root of all evil, but technically that would mean that me working and being willing to share my skills with another is the root of all evil. Money should be seen as my skills, if money was not in place for this transfer of skills then I would be working in your yard for you doing something you can not or will not do. Same value. But if you for example decide, “Hum I am not going to buy that item because I am scared for the future” now the person who is sharing his skills to make that item is being punished. I know punished sounds like a strong word but technically it is like looking into your neighbors eyes and saying, yes your valued but no I do not want you to work with me anymore. This places your neighbor in a bind and his family and pretty much 100 people surrounding him, it also put into a bind people he is associated with and anything he buys, or is already paying for. The snow ball affect of not gracing your neighbor with sharing his skills is nearly endless and often comes around to affect you as money is connected to money.

I know people that have money, that have contributed skills and shared expertise all their lives but deliberately seek to get things free. When I first meet them I thought maybe they where in dire need but this isn’t the case and they have gone out of their way to locate free things and to break the laws in areas to assure they could do things cheaply. Being thrifty is one thing but denying your fellow man the right to live is quite another and I believe that this couple is setting out to deny their fellow man with funds because they seek to be greedy. Now biblically speaking, your to love your neighbor as your self and as I see this if I love my neighbor I should want to do things for them that would grace them. Thus if I buy something from my neighbor or a merchant in a lot of respects the God given skills and talents I posses are being shared with someone else to bless them, the assure their families can also be blessed. So ultimately limiting or turning off the flow of money is placing focus on the money rather than the skills graced you by God to be able to share them with others.

Gracing others

If tomorrow money became worthless and we where back to gracing others in exchange for goods and services I do not think we would have many people understanding how to act. With the advent of money I think many people have decided to separate themselves from society and to equate their fellow man as more of a Dollar sign then a person. This can be really seen with any kind of funds allotted for outreach and to help a person get back on their feet. Money has to be wrestled out of the hands of people through government demands and shared at a premium to those struggling. But really if people understood the mechanics of money they would see that everyone is entitled to a honest days work and a honest days pay. And that so many are working to provide a life for their families and themselves. Payment is often defined in terms of what a market place can bare, so within that community if you had two black smiths and they where competing for business the market would bare lower pricing as there is an abundance of skills. However, I find that people and companies do not always evaluate the cost of a person’s life or the market value when determining what skills are worth. If a person becomes a master in his skill, then he can be exceptionally focused and efficient in what he does. Time is saved and more work is done with less effort. This should warrant better pay as the skills are at such a high level that a company saves by leaps and bounds with this person, however I see companies run by penny pinchers who strive to limit a person’s life but still demand the same output of skill. This would be the same as asking that person to work for free or forced charity.

A person who openly seeks charity while knowingly hoarding finances will find themselves facing their maker to explain for why they did nothing to grace their neighbor with the ample resources assigned to their stewardship. We are stewards of those things we are given and it is up to us to manage those things to best bless others so they can equally manage things. But i so find that when we are given things we do not see them as gifts daily but as things to abuse and destroy only to expect more to be given. Like the spoilt child who always has their hands out of more and more candy, ultimately has their teeth fall out and dies.

So the moral of all this is to see yourself as a steward of the things your given, your skills and the money that those skills convert into, because your given these things to bless others.