I’ll be quick.
When you’re a child, what question did you continuously ask the adult(s) in your life that likely drove them crazy?
“Why?”
It was an endless quest, searching for the final answer to the universe. We’re naturally curious creatures and that question drives us mad.
The reason that question upsets a lot of people is because the answer is almost always one of 3 things:
Because I don’t have enough (1) money, (2) space, (3) time.
You can try this yourself. Just keep digging further down until you can find the answer yourself. What you’ll find, is the answer is almost always money.
But when you ask yourself why you need money, the question all of a sudden gets difficult because, in your head, you have answers for why you need money. Answers that you think justify why you need all this money, when in reality, none of us needs money.
It’s the greatest common denominator.
The greatest common divisor.
According to Wikipedia, “In mathematics, the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two or more integers, which are not all zero, is the largest positive integer that divides each of the integers. For two integers x, y, the greatest common divisor of x and y is denoted gcd (x,y). For example, the GCD of 8 and 12 is 4, that is gcd (8,12) = 4.”
Now apply money to that.
The greatest common divisor, or the thing we all seem to need that also seems to divide us all, is money.
So what do we do?
Get rid of the GCD.
If we stop letting money run and ruin our lives, stop giving it power, and just continue living life, not only will we be much happier, we’ll be free.
This would also level the playing field.
Why?
Because money only matters to those who have it, not those who want it.