Money 錢!
Money destroys friendships, marriages, and family unity. Money, which in itself has essentially no value, exerts more power over human lives than any other single commodity. It brings out the best and the worst in people. An elderly woman is mugged and beaten by two youths for less than a dollar, while across town a couple on unemployment take in a runaway teenager and feed him because he has even less than they do.
The strange and illogical things that people do with and for money fill the newspaters and bring a smile to the lips of millions of readers, whose own money behavior is almost as strange. In the United States, for example, it is estimated that there are approximately eight million compulsive gamblers, men and women whose primary purpose in life is to bet money. On the otherside are the millions of compulsive savers, who are compelled to save money with the same vengeance that compulsive gamblers are driven to bet it. In the same class are the millions of compulsive bargain hunters, who drive miles out of their way to save two cents on a gallon of gasoline, or who buy potato peelers by the dozed because they are on sale at half price, or who haunt swap meets and garage sales buying anything that is cheap, even though they have no use for it.
To most people, the lure of money seems to be a natural phenomenon. They have become so indoctrinated with the idea that having money is important that they no longer question why. They are unaware that perhaps what they are truly seeking is an increase in self-respect, or security, or freedon, or love or powr. While they may not be aware of what it is they truly want from life, they feel sure that money will provide it for them.
金錢破壞友誼、婚姻以及家庭的和諧。金錢,本身就本質上來說並沒有價值,對人類的生活卻比其他任何一種日用品都有著更大的主宰力。它讓人們內在最好和最壞的部分顯現出來。一位老婦人因為身上不到一塊錢而被兩名年輕人襲擊毆打;而在鎮的另一邊,一對失業的夫婦收留一名逃家的青少年並供給他食物,因為他擁有的比他們更少。
人們用金錢以及為金錢做的一些奇怪而不合邏輯的事情受到報紙廣泛報導,讓數百萬讀者發出微笑,但他們自己的金錢行為幾乎也同樣奇怪。舉例來說,在美國,據統計約有800萬強迫性賭博者,這些男性與女性生活中的主要目標就是賭錢。另一方面,有數百萬強迫性儲蓄者,受到驅使強迫性賭博者賭錢的相同復仇心態強迫存錢。處境相同的還有數百萬名強迫性專找廉價貨的人,他們開車到幾英里的車到外地,以在每加崙汽油上節少兩分錢,或是購買一打馬鈴薯削皮哭,因為他們做半價促銷,又或是常到舊物交換會與車庫拍賣上購買任何便宜的物品,即使他們根本同不上。
對多數人來說,或許金錢的誘惑似乎是一種自然的現象。擁有錢錢是很重要的這個想法深植於他們心中,以至於他們不再質疑為什麼。他們沒有意識到,也許他們真正在尋找的是提升自尊,或是安全、自己、愛或權力。雖然他們可能不知道他們真正想從生命中得到的是什麼,但他們確信金錢將為他們提供那些東西。
今天看到這篇英文文章,覺得非常有趣。
因為,其類似整個社會人民對所得看法一致,但也不完成如此。
金錢對每個消費者來說,愈多愈好,但剛好景氣衰退,讓經濟成長下滑至負成長,反映著人民再努力工作,薪資愈來愈微薄,購買力下降,使人民不願意多消費,反而多儲蓄,這就是凱因斯學派提出,儲蓄矛盾說,儲蓄愈多反而使所得滅少。因為政府的利率已在很低很低,存在銀行與郵滙局愈多,所得到利息收入是有限的。
因此,馬政府才會積極擴大內需及告訴大家有空沒空都要努力消費來拼經濟,拼經濟只靠政府寬鬆政策是沒有效果,也需要全國人民一起動起來。
台灣人民加油!
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