Money: The myth we all believe in

Next time when you have 1 dollar in your hand, think, the money is just paper. It is worth it as you believe it. The same can be said to other people who read this article. But why do we believe that collective beliefs on the value of money and money are useful? I asked Adam Weitz, a psychologist and assistant professor at Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.

"To the best of my knowledge, money is a general illusion," Mr. Wetz says. "We feel that there are several orders of the world because there are lots of belief systems of all kinds, whether we are the space, government or religious organization, which is the details of the presence function."

Mr. Waytz said that most of the money's function is to help you measure things in an easy-to-understand way.

"This can quantify things very well, which makes us feel we live in a fair and meaningful society," he said. Recent studies have shown that the presence of money has an interesting psychological impact.

But money can also confuse things. Wetz said: "Sometimes it makes us more selfish and altruistic to others, it is to change the nature of social relations.Money actually leads us to society In this study, it is shown that social relations and putting money on the currency side, which normally does not have monetary value, are fraudulent.

Waytz believes that the amount of pairs for ideas such as social relations and friendship, marriage and spiritual and other systems, we think in terms of social and moral values ​​rather than market value We said that.

Does our view on money change in the future? Wetz wants so. He said that money continues to exacerbate inequality - only the rich have the ability to enter and influence specific aspects of life - people said they would have to deal with fairness and corruption .

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Even though we say out loud, most of us truly believe there is a popular myth. "If I had enough money to live independently in the economy, I would be happy." Let's call it the myth of the billionaire, "everyone" Depending on where you live, it may be more or less. I will argue, but if you do not believe it, I will not blame you. For a long time I did not. In the majority of my life, I think the main obstacle to happiness in adult life is lack of money and free time. Of course, the free time is affected by money. If you have enough money in the bank, you can spend lots of free time in comfortable activities, quit your job, delegate all work, hire cuisine and housekeeper, . This makes sense. Money gives you access to resources and is enjoying free time. If you are a billionaire, life will be better.

The myth that people believe money is because it is an asset with essential value. Money has no intrinsic value. Money is a simple ledger to track debts. Whatever form of currency exists, we value it because of its usefulness as a ledger. Gold is not a value because gems and chairs can use it to make sure that the chair is valuable as you are made of gold that it is missing. Kim was the "gold standard" for the past 5000 years. Until bit coins and block chains, gold found the best ledger form

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Authors believe in values, ethics, and customs. As money goes in and out, we will not cry. The myth here is that the poor are related to money, not life. The writer is rich in life. We have our own unique wishes. Be brave. Most people face what they oppose. Yes. I do not have any money. But you do not always have money, you know that we know more about the nature of human beings. We raised the standard from satisfying the money to the desire for the story.