Watched a documentary concerning the environment.. or shall I say,
our environment. Which really is a must-watch -
Home Project. Haven't seen a doco like that in a while, and it sparked little thought bubbles while I was watching it.
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Being at Ikea the other day, I spent a considerable amount of time watching people as they walked pass me. Okay, not
thaat kinda watch. While waiting for a friend, what better way to kill time than to wonder about the people around you?
And I watched as a lady un-thinkingly took two bags of chips into her arms, and proceeded to take some other items from the food section. Overwhelmed with curiosity, I walked over to see how much a bag of chips would cost. I don't remember now, but somewhere around RM 7.90?
My mind did a quick calculation as to how much money one would have to earn each month to buy two bags of potato chips that costs RM 7.90 each without having the words "
BUDGET!!!" flashing before you. Assuming of course, that if you have enough money to not think twice about expensive potato chips, you'd have enough money for many, many other things.
I twitched, wondering if I'd ever earn enough money to be unconcerned about how to make the most of my RM 7.90.
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Been thinking quite a bit about the pieces of coloured paper that I hardly see in my wallet these days. Well, with unemployment comes unmoneyment. And the last I heard, money is
still the solution to man's problems.
Back to our environment.
Watching how our world really is coming to an end unnaturally, hastened by our actions - made me wonder more about money and what it gives us.
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Money doesn't give us a wider range of choices anymore. It now gives us, rights.
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With money, we now have the right to own our first car, and not be victims of the public transportation system any longer. And with more money, we have
more rights to buy
more cars.
And when you have many cars and still,
more incoming money, we then have the upgraded right of buying better quality oil-guzzling cars. The kind that drink up 3 times more dinosaur juice than actually needed.
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Money gives us the right to use more water than we really need to, because, we
can afford to
pay for it.
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Money gives us the right to turn on the air-condition at its maximum capacity because, well, we have what it takes to afford it.
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Money gives us the right to convenience. Who needs to carry a water tumbler with them when plastic bottles of mineral water are sold at every corner?
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Money gives us the right to be bosses. If not bosses of a company, at the very least, bosses of one - the Indonesian maid. We work them with not even a single day off in 2 years, whilst we complain about our dwindling amount of annual leave.
Because we
paid them to work.
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Money gave Dubai the power to do this!
And this!
Man-made islands in the shape of the world, and a palm tree. But, all at the cost of our environment.
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And the need for money gives us the right to dig, abuse, misuse, exploit - our natural resources that really, doesn't belong to us anyway.
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I wonder about the
rightness of our rights. And where our quest for Vitamin M will bring us one day.
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Well. The thought bubbles originate from the person who will die with only a laptop to her name at this point in time.
Perhaps it will give me more right to think about money matters when I
actually have them.
Time to water the money tree?
