Reply #20: Money shouldn't matter, but it does when you don't have enough

[Flaxbee]

I agree that the accumulation of wealth is rather ridiculous - fancy cars, multiple houses, frivolous clothes, etc. But if you don't have enough money to fix your car to get to work, it matters. If you can't pay your mortgage three months in a row and the bank is going to foreclose, it matters. If you're 70+ and working as a greeter at WalMart (who just cut your hours b/c they've run every other business out of business in your tiny town) and the new, high gasoline prices are making it impossible for you to pay for food and heating, it matters. If you have to decide, as many do, between food and medicine and being warm enough in the winter, money matters.

And if you're young, it's not nearly as big of a deal as when you get older and less physically able with many fewer work and life options.

There are too many people in my area who are about to lose everything they've ever worked for b/c they don't have enough money, can't earn enough, can't even find a job.

Until this country gets its priorities straight and offers national health care, and tells the credit card companies and banks and big oil and big pharma and the MIC to go f*ck themselves, people are going to suffer and money will matter. Until this country acts civilized and can give every single citizen a safety level below which they CANNOT fall, money matters.

Having lots of money obviously does not make anyone a better person. It doesn't buy happiness, but it sure as shit makes life in this country in 2005 much, much easier.

Perhaps it is wrong to say that money matters, it is better to say that the LACK of money matters greatly.