Sunday, August 20, 2006

Opinions about work and money

Just as one of ancient Greek philosophers Euripides said, "No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity." Most of ordinaries are pursuing for a better live just on their wages which will afford all burdens out of work and later life when they retire. Meanwhile most of them have a family to support.

He might be a father of several children and he has to caltivate them to be useful persons. What they need to consider are these facts, that all children have comfortable home, warm clothes, and well education, even all kinds of facilities to satisfy their wishes and desires. He also needs early plans for emergency, insurance or other extravagant travel or luxury consumption. All these come from their normal work. They must face that where they live is in a real world not fantasy and what they can rely on is just their hands and mind.

Or in same sense, work equals money to suffice basic living standard and further requirement. Of course, none of us have courage as Socrates to abandon all unnecessary things to follow call from deep heart. Even if a few have such admiring spirit, they probably can't bear the attack from families or other social relationships. At such occasion, you can remind the common scenario as in the movie or story.

There are also many anonymous hero or heroines working for their dream a better society. Ford, though he was a monopoly in his time, he did good things for his workers. That's because he can thoroughly comprehend ordinary lives. In one of his book, he presented that most of people in this country are living on wages. The improvement of their lives, to some extent the increase of wages determines the prosperous of this country. As a leader, the aim of a company is to provide higher salary than any other company in the same area dose. What a wonderful world! It seems to exist in communistic world. Also he did what he thought, and became the hero of that time. On the contrary, nowadays the gold rule in business is to gain maximum profits with minimum costs. Money is the highest target regardless of environment, health or even ordinary lives.

Nevertheless he has magnitude capital and ability to impact lives of ordinary people, he also has the same choice as normal ones. Obviously, there is no necessary for him to worry the capacity of deposit or other details. He has to choose between making money and staying with families. One of the statistics about the time spending on work and leisure life indicates that middle classes prefer more leisure life than work even they will decline incomes. Fast pace life style and sophisticated social relationship and working environment make people materialist. All those in their mind are more money. Life changes greatly, so does the value hold by ordinaries, and also together with many social problems, such as juvenile crime, senior without care. Even relation of parent to child becomes the patronage and beneficiary.

While looking through web sides, various pages about teaching you how to be rich. What they real need is a firm heart to stick to one goal concerning others' feeling at the same time.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Sorry, but I think you should put more energies on you English writing. Keep on working, read more, and practice more, you'll see your great improvement :)