Whether we carry cash or use electronic means, such as online banking or Bitcoin, money is not the problem. As a former Sociology professor, I believe that greed causes so much harm and leads to injustice, competitiveness, and hate. First Timothy 6:9-10 states, “Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”
It was greed for land occupied by Native Americans that led to the Trail of Tears and the near genocide of Native Americans. It was that same greed that distorted Christianity to fit capitalist aims, utilizing the notion of Manifest Destiny —the idea that Europeans were on a God-given mission. It rationalized taking the land by any means necessary, including killing the people, even children, and labeling them as savages who were incapable of being civilized. This same greed justified slavery, segregation, and racial inequality in the United States.
Greed leaves a grubby splotch on the soul of a nation, where the majority of people across races, ethnicities, genders, and social classes must continuously fight each other for a small percent of the nation’s wealth, even as the top 20 percent own nearly 80 percent of it. Greed, the desire to have money at any cost to others, is the cause of so much conflict. It leads to ideas of superiority and inferiority, rationalizing inequality and injustice. If everyone could be content with having the basics and with sharing the wealth of the world, so much pain, violence, and prejudice could be eliminated, and wars would cease. Money is not the issue; greed is.
Written for Writing Prompts #87 from Esther Chilton: Money is the prompt. Fandango One Word Challenge prompt is Electronic. Ragtag Daily Prompt is Splotch.
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You express this so well. People do become greedy.
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Thank you. I worried that I might lose some followers with what seems a political post. But truth sometimes is uncomfortable. I think history can’t be and shouldn’t be ignored. That’s the sociology professor still in me. Thanks for great prompts that make us stop and think about ourselves and the world we live in.
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I studied sociology at college and university. I found it so interesting. I think you need to stop and question things so I’m really glad you do.
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