Some Thoughts Concerning Money
Every day some new act of outrageous theft and greed by bankers and corporations is revealed to the public. It’s like these guys live in some other world of their own invention!
Which is actually exactly how they think….they’ve been absorbed in their own selfishness and greed for so long that the rest of us no longer exist for them. Wrapped up in their own world, they commit despicable crimes against everyone on the planet that doesn’t belong to their special little private club of crooks.
Money seems to have that effect on peoples’ psyches.
One study discovered, by using MRI machines to scan people’s brains, that money thoughts lit up the same part of the brain that is activated by drug use in cocaine addicts. In other words, money is an addictive substance and we respond physiologically to the idea of money as if it is an actual physical addiction!
The weird thing is, money is an artificial construct. It originated as a portable tool to represent something real and tangible, goods or services that actually existed before it became a symbol of debt as it is today.
Money as debt is the invention of a group of the brilliant but twisted psychopaths who created the Federal Reserve in 1913.
The Fed has nothing to do with the government of the USA. The Fed is a private corporation that exists to print trillions upon trillions of dollars that it can then lend out at interest to further indebt and enslave us all. They make money by printing money and it’s legal!
What a racket! And it continues…although the world is slowly but surely waking up to this vast scam.
Here is a report of some interesting results concerning our perception of money from a study done in 2006:
Thoughts of money lead to selfish acts, study finds. Psychologists find that just the thought of cash can lead to selfish acts.
A team of psychologists has discovered why money can’t buy happiness. Pictures of dollar bills, fantasies of wealth and even wads of Monopoly money arouse feelings of self-sufficiency that result in selfish and often antisocial behavior, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science. All it took to discourage college students from contributing to a University Student Fund were 15 short phrases such as “a high-paying salary.” Those primed by money-related phrases donated an average of 77 cents, compared with $1.34 for students exposed to neutral phrases like “it is cold outside.”
“The mere presence of money changes people,” said Kathleen Vohs, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study.
Money makes it possible for people to achieve their goals without having to ask friends or acquaintances for help. Therefore, Vohs and her colleagues theorized that even subtle reminders of money would inspire people to be self-reliant — and to expect such behavior from others. A series of nine experiments confirmed their hypothesis. For example, students who played Monopoly and then were asked to envision a future with great wealth picked up fewer dropped pencils for a fellow student than those who were asked to contemplate a hand-to-mouth existence. In another experiment, students spent six minutes completing a questionnaire on a computer before a screensaver suddenly appeared. Students who saw fish swimming across their screens later moved their chairs an average of 2 feet, 8 inches from a compatriot, while those who saw currency floating underwater stayed more than 3 feet, 10 inches away. Money also influenced how people said they preferred to spend their leisure time. A poster of bills and coins prompted students to favor a solitary social activity, such as private cooking lessons, while students sitting across from posters of seascapes and gardens were more likely to opt for a group dinner.
“Money changes people’s motivations,” said coauthor Nicole Mead, a psychology graduate student at
Florida State University. “They are less focused on other people. In this sense, money can be a barrier to social intimacy.”
Perhaps their next study will examine whether the love of money is indeed the root of all evil.
Let’s list the findings here:
Less financial generosity: Students primed to think about personal wealth with money-related phrases donated less to a charity than those who were given neutral phrases.
Less cooperation and service to others: Students envisioning a future of great wealth were less likely to help others in need… in that case by neglecting to pick up pencils others had dropped.
More physical separation from others: Students who see money on a screensaver move their chairs 43 percent farther away from others than those who see fish. (46 inches rather than 32)
More desire to totally separate from others: Students who simply saw a poster of bills and coins were more likely to choose an activity that separated them from others, rather than those seeing photographs of nature.
Makes you think, doesn’t it?
Stephanie Kelley
