The Disadvantages of MONEY

As we cannot live without money, it plays a significant role in our lives. To some extent, we are all motivated by money and try to get it for all kinds of reasons. However, money is not an unmixed blessing. From my point of view, money is the most powerful medicine in the world. Not only can it help you, but also destroy you when you are totally controlled. A few days ago, I came across a proverb.” The same knife cuts bread and fingers. ” I spontaneously related it with money. There’s no better description of the dual character of money.

Although money is an efficient trading tool and can be used to but what we need and want, total dependence or misuse of money may lead to undesirable and harmful results.  

As for poor people, they always save every remnant coin and dream to be rich one day. Because of the lack of money, some of the students don’t have any opportunity to be educated. As a result, they have no way to learn new things or broaden their horizons. It means that competiveness of these poor people is extremely weak whether at school or at work. What they can do is to repeat what their fathers did, such as being laborers. On the contrary, rich youngsters receive better education and more chances. A child from a rich family is more likely to success in the future than one from a poor family. So, the poor become poorer, and the rich become richer. The gap between wealth will definitely lead to class conflicts. That is one of the most obvious disadvantages of money.

Another disadvantage is the great power of money. There is a kind of people who become the slaves of money. For example, in the book Eugenie Grandet, Felix Grandet, the father of Eugenie, is miserly rich person. In his eye, there is only MONEY, MONEY, and MONEY. He is too miserly to repair the house, to provide better living standards for his wife and daughter, and to help others. What he only enjoys is watching the wealth of property. Nothing can attract him except for gold and diamonds. He is just a tragic slave of money who destroyed the happiness of his lovely daughter.

As Mark Twain said, “The lack of money is the root of all evil”. There are too many crimes connected with money throughout history worldwide. Greedy people want money, and sometimes they cannot control their desire any more. No matter what methods they use, they must get more money. As a matter of fact, the money is far more than they require and some processes of getting money are illegal and dangerous to other innocent people.

To sum up, the defects of money do not indicate that we should not use it. The advantages of money far outweighed than the disadvantages. How money affects our life depends on how we use it. The proper use of money will bring us a happy life.