What MONEY can buy?

[Dartagnan]

It is said that MONEY is ev'thing and it can buy ev'thing. Rockefeller said: "Not everything can be bought by money but we can buy it by a lot of money". No one is dead of sadness, of crying, but of being hungry and of being thirsty.

BUT:

When U are sad or down, U need someone who listens to U.
When U don't know what to do, U need someone who can tell U an advice
When U wanna cry, U need someone who can give U his (her) shoulder...
And Money couldn't buy all this.


And U, what do U think about MONEY?

[ICQ]

ngờ uời có tiền hay không thì cũng là người thôi anh, anh nghĩ là một thằng nghèo lại vênh váo thì sẽ có người listen to nó khi nó buồn, tell nó advice khi nó cần, và give shoulder cho nó khi nó muốn khóc, còn một người có tiền thì vì nó có tiền người ta sẽ đối sử ngượi lại với nó sao.
Em tiêu tiền bằng phương châm "đồng tiền chỉ là công cụ chứ không phải mục đich". Còn phải sống để sao cho dù có tiền hay không mình sẽ vẫn luôn có bạn xung quanh.

[Charlie_051181]

Money is not everything , but no one can say money is nothing . In order to illustrate this statement , we could begin with this question:" Why do we have to study and restudy, what do we work for ? "the answer will be : We study and work for : Money , human relationships , power , prestige , love and so on . From it , we deduce that money is only one of the purposes of life , not overall . Everyone can be dead set on enriching , but his richness cannot cure him when his heart is hurtful.

[BILLNHUNG]

[quote="Dartagnan"]When U are sad or down, U need someone who listens to U.
When U don't know what to do, U need someone who can tell U an advice
When U wanna cry, U need someone who can give U his (her) shoulder...
And Money couldn't buy all this.
These sentences remind me of a song that I've heard a long time ago...It's name is " As tears go by ". it's pity, I can't remember its words exactly. Maybe :
" My riches couldn't buy ev'rything
The children are singing,
I'm sitting here alone, outside it's rainning...
I couldn't buy ev'rything by my riches..."

Đúng là"Money is not everything , but no one can say money is nothing ", đòng tiền có thể mua được rất nhiều thứ, thậm chí đôi khi nhiều hơn bạn tưởng...song liệu nó có thể find cho bạn một someone who listens to U,someone who can tell U an advice,someone who can give U his (her) shoulder..?
Điều đó tuỳ thuộc vào bạn chứ không phải vào số Money mà bạn có...Dẫu bạn có bao nhiêu thì nó vẫn không bao giờ bằng những thứ Không bao giờ có được bằng đồng tiền cả ! Chắc chắn là như thế !

[ICQ]

-No one is dead of sadness, of crying, but of being hungry and of being thirsty --> The way we're thinking about money is diffirent from this, so we're poor until now.

[Dartagnan]

Sometimes, we are in a divided mind as to what we are trying for. Only for money? No, I don't want to think so.

OK, most of Vietnameses are economically poor but we are rich in emotion, in selflessness... Seeing a handicap in the street, we can give him VND 2000 although we have only VND 10 000 in wallet.

Yesterday, I saw many babies who sent all their saved money to support the poorer ones. Money cannot buy these sentiment.

And in love? Can we buy a real love by a lot of money?

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YT: I'm just a poor man but...
:)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :))

[ICQ]

If we had many money, if our country was rich, there would be no poor people, the handicaps would have common wealthfare, there would no theaf, no robber, no mugger, the children would have better education, the adult would only love, and don't have to worry about future much, don't have to worry to earn money for there children to go to school, don't have to worry even for tomorrow's meals. If our country were rich, we would don't have to worry about war too, we would spend money for research, and have right to make our own future.
We can do many thing with money, even bring about happiness. You ussualy think that sentiment only comes when you were poor, but you were wrong, human relationship to be built on your own maner, not the money you have.

Happiness inside the poverty is a small happiness, but happiness without poverty is a full happiness, you can have it only if you have money.

[BILLNHUNG]

Noone is dead of sadness, of crying, but if U'r always living in ur sadness, u cry for urself & ur sadness ( there's no one by ur side ,no shoulder of him, Can U continue to live- to exist ??? , continue to get much money on ur own & only 4 ur own ?

[Sharky]

Hehe, money, this is a very interesting topic. When we were in the first semester, we had to do a group debate, one of the given topics was: "That only money motivates" and our team had to rebut that statement (mainly in terms of business circle). At first, every one was worried as it seemed that we could hardly win when searching for materials, many of were against us. However, the more we went on with our debate, the more we felt confident that we would win! :). And in fact, our arguments were very strong and well-proven (with heaps of supporting sources). Therefore, I think that it really depends on our point of view whether money is greatly important or even vital or not.

As for me, I don't want to be poor, that simple! Money is not the most important thing, but without money, no one can survive, esp. in this modern world. With a little money, we still can be happy, noone doubts!, but if we have a bunch of money, then we do a lot of things. I don't believe in the saying "A cottage with two golden hearts", I have seen a lot of break-ups with the causes stemming from the lack of indequacy of money. Instead, I like this one: "Money can't buy everything, but I'd rather be rich and happy than happy but poor" :))

[ICQ]

-continue to get much money on ur own & only 4 ur own ? --> The problem lies here. You see, you can't get away from the thinking of earning money for your own, and only for your own. We of course don't want to earn money for other, and if we make money, we make it for ourself, but because we're part of a society, we have duties towards it.
A powerful country is built up on its appropriate people. If our country is rich, so we are, and in return, if all its people are rich, the country is powerful.
Because of the thinking of making money only for their own, our country contains too much guilty of peculation, of bribery, of exortion, all the thing weakens it.
It seems that I have taken too much politics in, but insooth, have you ever wondered a question, what are we earning money for? If oneday you become rich, your children will have a good future, and you become people who have money, happily lead a life, isn't it all the thing you hope ? What will you think that time?
We don't earn money only for only ourself, but to build a happy life for us and for the people we love, for a better future.
The title should not be, what money can buy, but should be what money can do?

About love. When my girlfriend let me down, she told me that "money can't buy true love", so it means she don't love me because I intended to buy it by my money? Such a good reason to leave a boy behide to run after her lover. In someways, I'm a boy who owns more money than the boy at my age should have, but I've never think that I'll use my money to buy love, if some one loves me, I want to make sure she will love me but not my money. I'm young and full of dream, I have the right to hope for my cinderela. If you don't love me, then blaim me, but not blaim my money.

Human relationship to be built on your own maner, not the money you have

[Mapcon]

" What you can't buy via money, you can buy via a lot of money " ( Rockfeller ).
That mean : Money is very important . But I'm very poor ... therefore ..híc híc ...

[BILLNHUNG]

Having much Money, what will U do with it ? it's just a simple question , U can answer it easily. In the long run , money is not ev'rything , but U can do many , many things with it. People say that we can measure the depth of ocean, but we cant do it with love. Who has been intended to use money to " buy ' a Love , is that a true Love ? I; however, never think we call sth
"love " when we give a comparison between money and Love . Never .
" continue to get much money on ur own & only 4 ur own ? " I didn't mean to refuse the very valuable of money, I just wanted U to know how to use urs . Money is extremely important , don't say that U can live without it , maybe U 'r just a liar , sorry but it's true . In this now life, esp., lets work to have it, and to use it . It depends on U .

[ICQ]

-maybe U 'r just a liar -->híc ICQ can't understand tis.

[Dartagnan]

ICQ, she means "Ur are a great liar if U confirm that U can live without money", but don't be slave of money.

Money has not smell, I think, but how to use it best, it's not such an easy question to answer. We try ev'day to earn as much as possible money, but sometimes, money makes us crazy.

And if U were billionaire, like Billgates, what will U do with ur money?

[Acpa]

Money?I need it every day for my daily living.Before the finding of money, just think of the hard ways that people used to use to exchanging items.Now, what would happen if there were a sudden appearance of money???------> We would die!
This above statement does not concern much about the question of "What money can buy?".However, we must admit that money is extremely important.
I live up to the goal of seeing money 'as the tool, but not the purpose of life'.Under the exchanging value of money,there exists its real value which was made by people's afforts.
I would like to recall some previous opinions that some of you agree 'money cannot buy everything':emotions,true love,...etc. :roll:

To dartangan: If i were Bill Gates, i would spend some amount of my money building a very big "Bill Gates University of Technology" in Vietnam(exactly in Thanh Hoa) 8) :lol:

[ICQ]

-ICQ, she means "Ur are a great liar if U confirm that U can live without money" --> Ơ hơ, ICQ has never said anything like "ICQ can live without money", so ICQ is not a liar and no need to confirm anything. Just one thing ICQ want to say is that, people ussuslly think, money can't buy love and happiness, but ICQ think, in someway money can (even with a little or a lot of money) it depends on how the owner uses it.
-About true love, let say love between Adam and Eve, you can only have it by your own, your maner, not your money-->so money of course can't buy this.
-Let think about a wider meaning of love, of happiness, not only for your self, not only mental love, phlatonic love but for society full of love, love and happiness for your F1, F2 (I don't know its english expression may be " previous generation"), so money can buy it.

[Charlie_051181]

Acpa, you are not wrong to say that money cannot buy something such as : emotions , love ... I do know that as well , but it's in mane only , mate . Think of the present loves , those seem to be strongly based on money , one question can be yielded whether they are loves or not . Yes, of couse they are . Hence do they involuntarily buy love ? Evermore , let this matter run smoodly through your head that why don't you want to be a teacher in secondry or primary schools in the poor countrysides, though I guarantee you know exactly that teaching is the noblest and greatest carreer under the sun. Instead of doing that , you eagerly want to be a trader in healthy places . please answer "why did you do that ," it will be easy to see the role of money that you've hardly mentioned above .

[Sharky]

Just one thing ICQ want to say is that, people ussuslly think, money can't buy love and happiness, but ICQ think, in someway money can (even with a little or a lot of money) it depends on how the owner uses it.
Let think about a wider meaning of love, of happiness, not only for your self, not only mental love, phlatonic love but for society full of love, love and happiness for your F1, F2 (I don't know its english expression may be " previous generation"), so money can buy it.

I don't agree with ICQ that money can buy love, even if it's the wider meaning of love as you said.

Love is a very special feelings towards one or other people, and we can't say that feelings can be bought with money. It perhaps is more accurate to say that money helps strengthen and add flavour to such relationship if we use it wisely (buying a small but meaningful present for our loved one to give him/her a nice surprise for example). Also, money can help maintain love to some certain extent. By this I mean, when we have enough money to not to be so worried and obssessed by the lack of it, love'll be somehow freed from material dependence.

Moreover, if we can buy love, then others can buy it as well. If so, there would be no love in this world 'cos always there's someone richer than us, no matter how rich we are.

Love should be built up from a genuine loving heart. That's the most indestructible thing. Love based on money is just like a castle built on sand, which can be easily destroyed at any time.

[Charlie_051181]

Sharky , our thoughts normally want to be on the paths , but the ways of acting are on hight ways . what I've showed above lets we know where emotions and (loves) are from .You no longer hear the tune of " One cottage with the hearts of gold " song , because it has been sunk into oblivions coverd by what....?

[Dartagnan]

I do feel so excited seeing that my topic MONEY can be interesting like that. By the way, thank all of U.

Yeah, some of us are trying to convince that MONEY is nothing or ev'thing and MONEY can or can not buy love, a real love as we usually say.

Hehe, I can surely confirm that I never get married with a girl just for MONEY although I know some friends of mine did that. I don't wanna criticise them, because in some cases, we have not another choix, especially in my carrier, which needs an as big as possible "umbrella" (that's sometimes neccessary for them). My love and I, we never think, or not yet, about how we can survive in this Money World where all are estimated by the valuable of MONEY. We believe in our love, but we know, we can not live just with water and air. We try to earn Money to create more favourable conditions for our own life.