What's the most important thing in the world?

[gay_Aleks]

And now the craziness of all secondary structures and upperworks and other addons on money becomes obvious, no? And obsolete.

I think we're talking in different languages. Or our words enter different dimensions once we speak them.

 

[warpus]

The most important thing in the world is gravity. Without gravity your money would fly away, everyone would die, and all the planets would stop orbiting the sun.

 

[Borachio]

Why would your money fly away? Wouldn't it remain exactly where it was?

But if we're going to start talking about the nature of gravity (the weak force), I'll come out right now, and say I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about.

And yet if gravity is the weak force, why wouldn't the strong forces be more important? Or certainly at least as important?

Actually, now I come to think about it seriously, there's only two possible positions. Either everything is equally important or everything is equally unimportant.

 

[Angst]

Art.

5char

 

[Phrossack]

Importance for what, exactly?

 

[warpus]

Why would your money fly away? Wouldn't it remain exactly where it was?

It's got momentum, so if gravity was just suddenly gone, it would continue flying in whichever direction it is headed in now. But yeah, I worded that awkwardly. But I mean, without gravity we wouldn't even be here, so money wouldn't be here either, to begin with.

 

[Borachio]

But would it have momentum if there was no gravity?

I can sort of see what you mean. If gravity just suddenly disappeared but things retained their mass then I suppose objects would still have momentum.

But can you have mass with no gravity? I mean, is that even theoretically possible?

Also. Doesn't gravity have infinite range, even though it's very weak?

 

[Whomp]

Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash. Just think new car, caviar, four star daydream and maybe even buy me a football team.

 

[Daw]

New car, caviar and all sounds good, but then... What shall we do now? Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? Shall we work straight through the night? Shall we get into fights? Leave the lights on? Drop bombs? Do tours of the east? Contract diseases? Bury bones? Break up homes? Send flowers by phone? Take to drink? Go to shrinks? Give up meat? Rarely sleep? Keep people as pets? Train dogs? Race rats? Fill the attic with cash? Bury treasure? Store up leisure? But never relax at all with our backs to the wall?

 

[tetley]

The next.

 

[Daw]

tetely, you don't like Pink Floyd, eh? Or just don't want to take part in the classics citations exchange Whomp and I are having?

 

[Kennigit]

Link to video.

sugar.

 

[Narz]

Fulfillment.

Also whatever you're not getting enough of.

Money is only really, really awesome when you're broke. A million or two million is not really that big a deal, especially if you're stuck in a crappy life to get that extra mil.

 

[Hygro]

The responses in this thread tell me that competition to get rich is weak.

 

[Narz]

All y'all full of **** becuz reading goobledegook on CFC is not gonna get you rich. Or maybe you think you won't be lonely & bored if you get more money although it rarely works that way.

 

[Hygro]

All y'all full of **** becuz reading goobledegook on CFC is not gonna get you rich. Or maybe you think you won't be lonely & bored if you get more money although it rarely works that way.

Who is this aimed at?

 

[Lohrenswald]

How do you know it's for the better?

I was planning to rant about this.
With money we get the system where people crave to obtain it, rather than trying to make things better or care for eachother. It becomes an unending race, where you have to compete with those who should be your friends. But no matter how hard you try to race, there will always be someone ahead, manipulating the world to suit their egotistical desires.
It alienates and fetishises.

Almost anything else is better by the sheer virtue of being something else.

EDIT: tl;dr the rich are evil

 

[Manfred Belheim]

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

 

[tetley]

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

My dog is bigger than your squirrel.

 

[Souron]

If money were the most important thing in the world, then the person with the most money would be the most virtuous, for there would be no greater virtue. The fact that we don't consider that person the most virtuous means that we cannot, with logical consistency, consider money as the most important thing in the world.