Answer for: Will there ever be a better motivator than material reward?
#6 Progress through the labor of love.
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Essentially money are only pieces of paper and metals that represent value. It is a DEEP, POWERFUL, and HEAVY spell for an ENTIRE globe to be convinced that currency and NOT the materials and people needed for living hold true value.
Currency is a conduit, a middle man, that is governed not by the forces of nature and the arising necessities of life, but governed by humans, and a small group of humans in relation to the worlds population.
Juxtaposing ancient Mayan and Egyptian societies to ours. They didn't have money. Nowhere is there a reference to something that represented a value, for what was valuable in itself.
I think the pursuit for material reward would be eliminated through TRUE education, and not an education that trains people to be part of a system that is NOT governed by nature, BUT by the pursuit of material rewards...
...That and people being educated of the fact that we all have this planet and human condition in common.
Material rewards are partly measured by life span. Some people would sacrifice other people and/or the environment to amass material gain. To those there is no point in perusing something that will not reward them within their own life span.
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just saying:
"The use of gold as proto-money has been traced back to the fourth millennium B.C. when the Egyptians used gold bars of a set weight as a medium of exchange, as the Sumerians had done somewhat earlier with silver bars."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money
A friend of mine, "Tamir" read what I wrote here and out of his own free will elaborated on it. I found it quite good.
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Money is, essentially, pieces of paper and metallic trinkets that represent value. When pressed, we all logically accept that these have no more intrinsic worth than the material from which they're actually made. It is, therefore, a deeply rooted and powerful spell that binds an entire globe to the notion that currency can carry, in a purely symbolic way, the value inherent only in the actual materials and people-power needed for living meaningful and satisfying lives.
We have been led to believe that the ebb and flow of human desires drives the perpetually self-balancing dynamics of supply and demand. Also taught is that the forces of nature, naturally, influence the value of those goods and services and so turn the gears of human commerce. When it finally comes to money, we are assured that currency is merely a conduit – an inanimate "middle man", if we will – the value of which is ostensibly defined by the collision of insatiable human wants and nature's whimsical, if not schizophrenic, waves of poverty and plenty.
The truth is far from this Promised Land of financial freedom. Behind the curtain members of the board of Oz, a very small slice of the human population, pull the levers and jam the gears to which we so loyally look as the stabilizing machinations of our value system. Now compare this to the ancient Mayan and Egyptian societies, who didn't have money. Nowhere in these vast civilizations can be found a reference to something that represented a value, for what was valuable in and of itself.
It would seem our excessive pursuit of material reward would be eliminated effortlessly by education that frees us from a system of symbolized value. Such enlightenment would succeed by bringing us back to nature to find, therein, the tangible values of real goods and the immediately self-defining workings of human power required to transform those goods into value added products. Logic and reason seamlessly embrace to reveal that only nature's governance of man's efforts will bring about a sustainable and reliable means of productivity upon which this common pearl of a planet of ours will ever fondly look.
One last element of insight is needed to bring home this essential idea. Slow down the growth of a virus to 1/100th of its normal rate and you would think the patient is surely in remission. Clearly, it would be a mistake to think that an event happening so slowly that we simply don't observe its advance, is a condition of status quo. How much more sinister would it be to discover that our very slavery is being effected via the externalized symbolization of our human power over timeframes that make it seem deceptively uneventful? Much like a long-standing family business expands slowly over a number of generations, the covert mission to secure and assign control of the word's natural, and ultimately valuable, resources to a few "managers" is being effected so slowly that we can't even see it happening. Those same executives are, themselves, links in a long chain of ideological slaves determined to literally expend the lives of the vast majority of humans as well as the health of the planet if it will even suggest the possibility of a position of priority among the masses.