Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The love of money is the root of all evil?

Kota Sato

It’s too difficult to say whether having money is positive or negative. Of course, as people earn lots of money, their sense in thinking about money gets worse and they also might lose their ability to control their desire for money. For example, to get a large amount of money, some people may try some illegal ways like tax evasion. In the other cases, people use their money just for something which satisfies them like buying lots of clothes of expensive brands or wasting a large sum of money on casinos or expensive bars.

However, I suggest there are lots of ways which prohibit people from going on the road to all evil. In the word, of course there are many people who have a large amount of money and try to use it in helpful and effective ways. For example, in 2005 Bill Gates who was the president of Microsoft donated seven hundred and fifty million dollars to the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization which is a global organization for saving children’s lives and the health of people throughout expanding the vaccination program for children. Moreover, he founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 and he retired from the presidency of his company confirming his devotion to charitable activities.

As for me, I’m not interested in money, so have never thought I want to get lots of money. Considering the example of Bill Gates, I guess he doesn’t love or have a deep attachment to get money and I can agree with his way of the usage of money through charity. As a result, I do think and hope the love of money need not mean being addicted to it, but people should control not only themselves but also money.  As we see in the case of Bill Gates, people have lots of ways to use money and it might be rather difficult not to be able to find a good way to use money if you have a large amount of money.

1 comment:

  1. I didn't know Bill Gates donated such a large amount of money!! It's really nice that the rich donate money to the poor or developing countries as the charity.
    Most of people think about just themselves so some use money to get profit for just themselves in the vicious way, I think.
    The mind of thinking about other people is indisensable in human life:D

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