Is money evil

Answer 1

Money itself cannot be directly considered to be "evil", as it's an inanimate object. It's the desire for money that can cause evil acts to be committed.

Early on in mankind's history, humans began to trade objects they had for those they wanted or needed. For example, say I'm a fisherman, so I have fish; and you're a farmer who owns an apple orchard, so you have apples. Since my skills allow me to acquire fish, and yours allow you to acquire apples, it would be beneficial to us both if I were to trade my excess fish for your excess apples. That way, we both have a bit of each, where normally we'd only have one or the other. It was much the same thing when hunters would trade their meat with weavers for clothes or potters would trade their earthenware to a forager for some strawberries. They would also trade for services, such as hiring a carpenter or mason to build them a house. This was known as the barter system.

Later on, humans began working with metals, including precious metals such as gold and silver. Eventually, they would begin making coins from gold, which served no practical purpose, but were intended to represent the value of an object. For example, let us go back to my earlier example where I am a fisherman and you're an apple farmer. Say I have extraneous fish I want to trade to you, which you want; but your apple harvest hasn't come in yet, so you don't have any apples to trade for them. So instead of giving me apples for my fish, you give me gold coins, which I can trade back to you for your apples when your harvest comes in, or use to buy whatever else I want. This was known as the monetary system.

Gold and silver coins were predominantly used as currency for a few millennium, but as banks began to sprout up all throughout Europe, people began to produce bank notes; first on sheets of metal, and later on the paper money we know today. A bank note represented a set value of money within the bank. The note could later be returned to the bank in exchange for the gold and silver money it was worth. The idea caught on, because it was far lighter and more compact than a purse filled with heavy metal coins, and so the age of paper currency began.

However, whether in a paper state, precious metal state or even with the barter system, human corruption will always be present. People have stolen, plundered, murdered and committed many other atrocities since the beginning of time in the name of material possessions. However, it's easier in a society where a system of currency is present, because money is universal. It can be traded for nearly anything, because so many people accept it as a measure of value; unlike apples or fishes.

Answer 2

Here we have to remember a few things that money is not at all bad any way but the greed for the money is very bad.

The Bible clearly says that it is the love of money is bad , and not the money itself.

Answer 3

AnswerAn old saying is that money is the root of all evil, but this question asks whether the lack of money is the cause of all evil. Of course, much of the evil in the world has causes quite apart from money or the lack of it. In other cases, evil results from greed, and greed exists among both the poor and the wealthy. But it is surely true that the uneven, and perhaps unfair, distribution of wealth is itself a major evil in the world. While it is appropriate that some get well rewarded fro their efforts and willingness to take financial risks with their own money, and it is inevitable that some countries will prosper more than others, the existence of extreme poverty is an evil if we overlook it and simply focus on the accumulation of our own wealth.

Answer 4

It could be