The Point of Money · Second Addendum

Rabbi Benyamin Walters Original Class. Machine transcription (Sofer.ai): expect mistakes, especially in Hebrew terms. Topic headings are auto-generated.

Finding Joy in What You Do 0:02

Yeah, exactly. It's very important to do something you love, because if you if you think about it, then you're very rich. Because the whole purpose of money is to get people that if you the things that you don't like to do or you're not good at doing, you don't know how to do, so you make a deal. You find somebody that's that likes doing those things, and you say, you do the things you like, let's say milking cows, so you say, you milk the cows, I don't like milking cows, and I'll grow wheat for you, and then we'll trade.

I'll give you some wheat, and you'll give me some milk. But then it got to be that there are so many different things that you say, you know, why should I have to go barter my wheat all around? Let's make a monetary system where we'll give everything a set relative value, so then I'll just take the I'll get money, and that money is basically every dollar is worth a certain amount of time and effort and like annoying annoyingness.

And so the more valuable something is, the more time, effort, or annoyingness goes into it, or skill, or whatever, you know what I mean? So that it's like something that that's much less likely that I want to do, and so I'll pay you more for it.

So if you're gonna do something that you don't like, then you're basically wasting the whole purpose of the money is is you're throwing it away. You might as well just make do everything yourself.

You know, if you're gonna do something you don't like, then there's no point in making the monetary system. Forget about There's no purpose in money.

The Real Purpose of Money 1:32

You might as well just make all the things that you want, you know, grow your own wheat and grind your own flour and stuff, you know. The whole purpose of it was that you should be able to do something you like, and other people will trade with you. So if you do something you like, then you're taking advantage of it, of the money. But if you're doing something you don't like, then you're just wasting your time and your money.