What can you not do for money?
Yes, questions like this are frequently answered with phrases like "I can do this, I can not do this," but most of these responses are based on assumptions. When we are asked questions, we always try to respond based on our projection of who we believe we are.
For example, most people already have an identity of who they believe they are, but most of the time, we are not entirely who we believe we are, especially if we do not engage in self-reflection.
For example, if someone says I am wicked, I do not immediately dismiss the idea; instead, I try to figure out if it is true and why it might be true, because honestly, I might have done something that is not "bad" because my perspective at the time was skewed or something.
While I can no longer do some of the things I used to do, I can still succumb to temptation and slide down the slippery slope, why? Because life is full of temptations.
For example, a person who has had a good breakfast will not be enticed by the sight of food or tempted to do something crazy to obtain food; however, for someone who is starving, the sight or smell of food sends a signal to the brain that the stomach is hungry.
So what we do in a state of hunger may not be what we think we can do on a regular basis, but once we are motivated to satisfy a need, the need goes all the way to being satisfied because we are no longer in control.
When people lose control, their behavior becomes erratic, and the hymen of personality bias is frequently broken.
Back to the question.
I do not believe that people can predict what they can not do for money based on who they think they are or what values they believe they represent.
We maintain our personality the more stable our life becomes: the more stable your family, income, health or life is, the more you'll be able to sustain the personality you think you have, but the more unstable we become in terms of these things I mentioned, the more we're like to change.
For me, I do not believe there is anything anyone cannot do for money; it takes discipline, godliness, and principle to maintain a resolve even when these positions threaten our survival. People have slept with their bosses at work in order to advance or climb the organizational hierarchy.
When these people first started out, they never imagined they would do such a thing, but as they taste power, affluence, connection, and wealth, the thin line that separates their static personality becomes thinner as these people go on to lose themselves.
The more you break the hymen...
....The harder you'll fall
Infact the more they lose themselves, the more immoral justifications they'll build to back up how far they've gone.
We can become fake friends not because we want to, but because life's circumstances force us to, and we can offend people by not being present in their lives when they need us, which is because we were not stable enough to make ourselves available to them. However, does this negate the fact that we were unavailable for them?
There is nothing impossible for people to do. If it is thinkable, it is doable; I am not talking about alien invasions, but legible thoughts that humans can grasp.
Money rules the world because it provides solutions to more than half of all human problems.
So this accessibility alone implies that the need to obtain it makes people adaptable to what they can and cannot do. When it comes to survival, we usually prioritize ourselves over others, and the only thing that can stop this is perhaps a father's or mother's love for a child, and vice versa.
We need love, loyalty, and dedication that defies logic to overcome this psychological law of gravity. We must be able to understand the benefits and drawbacks while still making selfless decisions that are detrimental to ourselves.
We must sometimes accept that we may lose our lives, jobs, families, homes, or loved ones if we refuse to do what is necessary to salvage the situation. At this point, most people will choose to compromise their faith, belief, or whatever they stand for, particularly if the things I mentioned are at stake.
Our false sense of stability can lead us to believe that we have an unbreakable self-aura, but this is because we have not been tested.
Interested in some more of my posts
Why Is the grind getting harder?
Monopoly Is the Death of Civilization
Survival: Choas and Scarcity
Crypto: Gut & meaningful Connections
What is the primary barrier to entry in Web3?
What Are Some Things You Should not Do During A Bull Market Year?
Very very true! Experientially, most if not all of the values or principles we stand for goes out the window when our base instincts take over. I've heard of a mother who under normal circumstances feared cockroaches, killed a hyena when her child was put in danger. I think money has become a necessity to survive in the modern world and survival is one of those that really doesn't care what we think of ourselves as but what we need to do to survive, with the consequences of that or whether it's the right or wrong thing to do as an afterthought.
Your reply is upvoted by @topcomment; a manual curation service that rewards meaningful and engaging comments.
More Info - Support us! - Reports - Discord Channel
Thank you for the curation :)
Indeed. I think a lot of people are probably not going to believe what they're naturally capable of, unless survival instincts kicks in, just like the mother you mentioned. In the aspect of money, I think some people are more of hypocrites than they'll like to admit. I think the illusion of stability is why we mostly don't know what we're capable of.
That sense of stability can be very fleeting. One day you can be on top of the world and lose everything the next to a major health problem. Your family might leave you, and your world would fall apart....
Money does make things easier and is needed to survive. It's sad but true. A true necessary evil unless of course you happen to own a gold mine, sadly I don't! It really is a shame the world is the way it is, but I don't see that changing anytime in the near future!
A necessary evil. You're right.. I think because we need money to survive there will always be a sort of compromise because we need it survive..
I hate compromise because I'm a Christian. Infact one of the things I pray and hope for is never to be in a position to compromise myself because I need to make money to survive, but like you've said: it's just the way it is..
How have you been doing?
I like the way you portrayed that people often believe they know their limits, but tough situations can push them to act differently. We really can't say we have integrity until we have pushed to the wall or we are being threatened.
Another thing is that when survival is at stake, values can shift. It takes strong discipline and love to stay true to oneself. It is not always easy, particularly when you have family and loved ones going through pain and you are being confronted with temptation like this.
You're right, thanks for the summary. Yeah, I think someone we tend to believe we know our limit. Some people do, others do not. Compromise is easy when people are faced with survival situations. Many people are capable of some things they can't even imagine
It's tough, but I agree. There are values and principles that we should represent because getting rid of them would just meant hat you are a slave to someone else. It's hard though when money is needed throughout our lives.
Money is inevitable in everything we do. I think the 21st century makes it so that people will be reliant, dependent and struggle for money all their lives.