Money, money, money!
Here is one
of the most famous topic of group discussions: Does money bring happiness? I am
sure most of my readers already have debate the subject and have very strong
arguments. I want to discuss it in another way, something I have never thought
before, something a little bit crazy. We are going to use a lot of imagination.
Come, jump in a world where, on the 1st of January 2013, at any
given time, say 12 o’clock, EVERYONE ALL OVER THE WORLD suddenly became a billionaire!
Every single human being, wherever they are on the planet, discovered stacks of
cash in some place around them. How would the world be by today, 8th
of February 2013? Here are my guesses.
Office
Factories would definitely be closed; nobody has ever been interested into
chain work. They would not need to come and do painful work anymore. It would
be the same with minors, maids and every other painful job done only because
one have to take care of a family or so. It will also be the case with low paid
jobs like cashiers in super markets and staff in shopping malls. It would be
funny to see how we would spend the money we all would have with no sales
person. Researches would be the only ones to still go to office; money isn’t
necessarily their main purpose. Finally, I would feel pretty bad for the people
(usually men) who always take the excuse of office to run away from their
spouse and develop other activities, if you know what I mean.
Education
My prediction is that schools would be pretty empty. Parents would not need to
go to office anyway; they can take care and educate their kids peacefully at
home. One third of colleges’ population would remain, since some students do
not go there only for the hope to get a good job and get money, some go
actually for the knowledge they get there. Some might also go there to run away
from difficult family situations.
Church
What we people pray about, now that they are stinky rich? 90% of the prayers
will be cancelled since everyone finally got what they have been asking for. Only
the most faithful ones would go to thank and praise the lord for all the money
they got.
Health
Doctors would be in an absolute dilemma. They have promised to always do
everything in their power to save people’s life, regardless of their financial
situation. Still, health care is one of the costliest services we can find on
the planet. I think half of the doctors would work only for their family and
friends or people they care about. It would be really hard to work in sane
conditions anyway since all the cleaning personnel would never step foot in
there anymore.
Daily life
Without personnel, entertainment places, shopping malls and bars would never
open their premises, which would create a big problem since people would want
to spend all the money they finally have. Some would not hesitate to break
barriers and serve themselves for free, because there won’t be any policemen or
security personnel anymore; they would be all billionaires anyway. There is
high chance of civil war in such a state.
Our life in
2013 includes so many aspects that it is just impossible to give an accurate
description of what the world would be in everyone was suddenly rich. I have not talked
about subjects like food, politics, terrorism, law, economy, travelling, and everything else you can think of.
I am pretty sure anyway that the result of the
loss of our greatest motivation in life would be chaos! This material disorder
would considerably affect our moral values and perceptions of the world, and I
highly doubt that we, human beings will be able to handle such a change. At
least, it will certainly not make us happier. So, is the world better in its
current state, with some people insanely rich and others miserably poor?
Let’s stop here with what I consider is a
pretty sad conclusion! I expect some comments though on how you picture such a world!
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