QA问答：人们为什么为金钱着迷？
Why are people obsessed with money?
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如果你的钱用完了，你就会陷入困境。
你将会被暴力驱逐，被扔到街上死去，无法获得所有资源。
因此，你自己是否相信并崇拜金钱并不重要：你必须服从，追逐金钱。
这有点像住在一个村庄里，不去教堂会把你当作异教徒烧死。
嘿，我想知道那个村子里的人，为什么如此痴迷于去教堂？
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Why are people obsessed with money?
人们为什么为金钱着迷？
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If you ever run out of money, you are in deep shit.
You will be violently evicted, tossed to die on the streets, cut off from accessing all resources.
So it doesn’t really matter if you yourself believe in the cult of money or not: You have to comply, and run after money.
It’s kind of like living in a village where not going to church will get you burned as a heretic.
Hey, I wonder why the people in that village are so obsessed with going to church?
如果你的钱用完了，你就会陷入困境。
你将会被暴力驱逐，被扔到街上死去，无法获得所有资源。
因此，你自己是否相信并崇拜金钱并不重要：你必须服从，追逐金钱。
这有点像住在一个村庄里，不去教堂会把你当作异教徒烧死。
嘿，我想知道那个村子里的人，为什么如此痴迷于去教堂？
Because, to quote the undying words of the great philosopher Homer Simpson: “Money can be exchanged for goods and services. Wohoo!” And we all need goods and services.
引用一句伟大哲学家荷马·辛普森（Homer Simpson）的不朽格言：“金钱可以用来交换商品和服务。喔噢！我们都需要商品和服务。
We are all in a sense competitors, particularly early in life. We choose the 'best' mates we can in terms of health (looks), resources and status. Money is one indicator of status, so people will do what they can to get it or 'appear' like they have it.
Basically, money as an abstraction, has a far broader implication than a medium of exchange. It implies social and intellectual value as well, or at least the appearance of such.
The irony is that even people who aren't terribly materialistic and don't infer status from wealth, find themselves 'playing along' to insure that the perception they create for others implies high status.
A friend of mine was had become quite successful in a business he had started, found himself in an odd situation. He was and is extremely frugal, buying only what was needed to advance his business and foregoing the traditional extravagances. He had no employees and no office (aside from a home office, subcontracting when he needed to.
He had an opportunity to obtain a valuable sales concession, but met with resistance because he was 'small-time'. He resolved the problem in a very creative way--he arranged with a friend to borrow a brand new BMW 5 series and set up a meeting with the vendor who was in Las Vegas for a few days. He arranged to pick him up at his hotel (in the BMW) and take him to breakfast. By the end of breakfast, he had a contract.
The only thing that had changed was the vendor's perception.
从某种意义上说，我们都是竞争对手，尤其是在生命早期。我们可以根据健康（长相）、资源和地位来选择“最佳”伴侣。金钱是地位的一个标志，所以人们会尽其所能去获得金钱，或者“表现”出他们拥有金钱的样子。
从基本上来说，货币作为一种抽象概念，其真实的含义远比交换媒介这个说法更广泛。它还意味着社会价值和智力价值，或者至少是这种价值的表象。
具有讽刺意味的是，即使是那些不是极度物质主义、不从财富中推断地位的人，也会发现自己“随波逐流”，以确保他们为他人创造的感知意味着高地位。
我的一位朋友在他创办了一家企业，取得了相当大的成功，他发现自己的处境很奇怪。他过去非常节俭，现在也非常节俭，只购买发展业务所需的东西，并摒弃了传统的奢侈。他没有员工，也没有办公室（除了一个家庭办公室，需要时可以转包）。
他有机会获得有价值的销售合同，但是因为他企业的规模太小，而遇到了阻力。他以一种非常有创意的方式解决了这个问题——他与一位朋友借了一辆全新的宝马5系，并与已经在拉斯维加斯待了几天的供应商安排了一次会面。他开着宝马去供应商的酒店接他，然后带他去吃早餐。早餐结束时，他签了一份合同。
这件事情里，唯一改变的一件事情，是供应商的看法。
The way our (global) current socio-economic structure is organized, Money essentially gives you freedom.
If you have a good amount of money with you (and maybe a sustainable income from investing that money) you are essentially financially free for life.
With this freedom one can really then start doing stuff that makes a difference but may not pay that much. You don't need to be a slave to your job any more and can take risks with your work and career to do things that actually interest you. The corporate environment is usually tough in most places in the world (if they pay you well they also take their pound of flesh in return). If you have enough money, you can be free from it.
Usually, reaching the financial freedom stage is very difficult, since we tend to a) add on more and more responsibilities to our lives as we grow older and b) Make our basic lifestyle more and more expensive alongside.
But once a reasonable degree of financial freedom is reached, I see no reason why one should be running after money any more.
按照我们（全球）当前社会经济结构的组织方式，金钱本质上给了你自由。
如果你身上带着一大笔钱（再加上一笔可持续的投资收入），那么你基本上实现了一辈子的经济自由。
有了这种自由，一个人可以真正开始做一些有意义的事情，但可能不会付出那么多。你不需要再做工作的奴隶，你可以在工作和事业上冒险去做你真正感兴趣的事情。世界上大多数地方的企业环境通常都很艰苦（如果他们给你高薪，他们也会不顾你的痛苦从你身上拿走他们觉得他们应该得到的回报）。如果你有足够的钱，你就可以摆脱它。
通常，达到经济自由的阶段是非常困难的，因为我们倾向于
a）随着年龄的增长，在生活中承担越来越多的责任，
b）使我们的基本生活方式变得越来越昂贵。
但一旦达到了合理的财政自由度，我看不出有什么理由再追求金钱了。
Because people are void inside. Money, however, buys happiness. The problem with happiness is it’s temporal.
So, they have to keep getting more money---becoming obsessed with it---to buy happiness to fill the void in their souls that can never be filled by the things money buys.
因为人们内心空虚。然而，金钱可以买到幸福。问题在于，幸福他是短暂的。
因此，他们必须不断地得到更多的钱——变得痴迷于金钱——来购买幸福，以填补他们灵魂中的空虚，而这些空虚是金钱买来的东西永远无法填补的。
I don’t know if ‘obsessed’ is the right choice of word. However, I do think that money has become a measure of some people’s self-worth, they have endowed it with a power it doesn’t posses, the power to make us feel better about ourselves, it can certainly give us a short term boost, but that’s about it.
I think some people have also associated money with power and respect.
Money doesn’t make you powerful, and it doesn’t gain automatic respect. That’s something we have to work on ourselves.
So, why are people ‘obsessed’ with money? Because they have attached a meaning to it that money does not posses. Money is only paper and metal, it’s the meaning we give to it that causes the harm.
我不知道“痴迷”这个词是否正确。然而，我确实认为金钱已经成为一些人自我价值的衡量标准，他们赋予了金钱一种它不具备的力量，一种让我们对自己感觉更好的力量，它当然可以给我们带来短期的幸福感，但仅此而已。
我认为有些人也把金钱与权力和尊重联系在一起。
金钱不会让你变得强大，也不会自动赢得尊重。这是我们必须自己解决的问题。
那么，为什么人们对金钱“着迷”？因为他们赋予了金钱本身不具有的意义。金钱只是纸和金属，是我们赋予它其他的意义，造成了伤害。
Some people are obsessed with money, and they want more, this is something I know due to how some of my family are. Some cant stand if someone else has a few more bucks. However as long as I pay my bills and my kids have food and clothes, I am the type who would help others if I have any money to share to another person who is struggling. I stay on a budget. People who are obsessed with money kind of scare me, and that is called greed. Maybe they were raised so poor that when they get money they hoard it up. if your so obsessed with money that would be all your mind would be on is how to make another dollar. I am glad I am not like that. Greed is bad.
有些人沉迷于金钱，他们想要更多，这是我知道的，因为我的一些家人就是这样的。如果知道其他人有更多的钱，有些人就受不了。然而，只要我可以支付账单，我的孩子有食物和衣服，我就是那种如果我有钱可以分享给另一个在困境中挣扎的人，会帮助别人的人。我有预算。沉迷于金钱的人让我害怕，这就是贪婪。也许他们从小就很穷，所以当他们拿到钱时，就会把钱藏起来。如果你如此痴迷于金钱，那么你的全部心思都会放在如何再赚一美元上。我很高兴我不是那样。贪婪是不好的。
Money has value because we've all agreed it has. Since it has value and you can buy things , you can buy goods and services with it, well it's kind of natural that people desire it.
It’s not much use during a disaster. If WW III occurred, paper money might only be useful as toilet paper.
But again, we rob banks and swindle others because we’ve all agreed that money has value.
Obsessing with it, or obsessing with the lack of it, in my opinion, is a rat hole. It will either drive you crazy if you lack it, or take away from your character if you obsess about having it.
There is nothing wrong with, and loads right with, having lots of money (just ask yourself - if you were suddenly a multimillionaire, would your life become suddenly richer, better, with more possibilities?).
Want to make lots of money? Find an area where people have a nagging problem, come up with a great way to help people solve that problem, do it passionately, as though you’d come on to your life’s work, and along the way, you will most likely get rich without ever having to obsess much about it.
钱是有价值的，因为我们都同意它有价值。因为它有价值，你可以买东西，你可以用它购买商品和服务，人们渴望它是很自然的。
在灾难中它没有多大用处。如果第三次世界大战发生，纸币可能只能用作卫生纸。
但同样，我们抢劫银行和诈骗他人，因为我们都同意金钱 有价值。
在我看来，沉迷于它，或者沉迷于它的缺失，是一个无底洞。如果你缺少它，它会让你发疯；如果你沉迷于拥有它，它会让你失去你自己。
拥有很多钱没有错，是对的（问问你自己——如果你突然成为千万富翁，你的生活会突然变得更富有、更好、有更多的改善吗？）。
想赚很多钱？找一个人们抱怨的问题，想出一个很好的方法来帮助人们解决这个问题，充满激情地去做，就好像你已经开始了你一生的工作一样，一路上，你很可能会变得富有，而不必太纠结于此。
Obsessing over money is dumb.
It's just a means with which to purchase goods and services.
You need just enough to have a reasonably comfortable existence so you can spend your valuable time obsessing over more important things like where you are going to watch the sunset tonight.
痴迷于金钱是愚蠢的。
它只是一种购买商品和服务的手段。
你需要足够的时间来拥有一个相当舒适的生活，这样你就可以把宝贵的时间花在更重要的事情上，比如今晚你要去哪里看日落。
It all started the day we were born you were born or i was born we were taught the system of rewards the "do this kid and i'll give you that" or the " you see that guy over there thats your competition you got to beat that guy" and never for once did we try to oppose it felt so natural like thats how its meant to be and we just go with the flow
Time goes by we enter the teens and boy is it thrilling "dad can i go to that party or can i have that new toy or that new dress or that god knows what " and it all makes us feel so powerful and we be so happy like we have everything in the world because we don't realise the value of what has been buying us all this fake happiness our parents smirk when we are not around and say "one day he or she'll realise and they just get back to their business...
And boom one day comes we are 18 and we are told "kid its been awhile now lemme tell you a little secret and out comes a green shiny bill" they say " you see this thing over here well it doesnt grow on trees ,you got to work your ass off for it and thats what you gotta do for the rest of your life "
And then it hits us the world we live in feels not so good now if only we were told to go with the flow and not bought all this fake happiness and told to find it within
So next time it crosses your mind as to why people run after money its a simple answer really "to fill the void within".
这一切都是从我们出生的那一天开始的，你出生或我出生，我们被教导奖励制度：“做这个，孩子，我会给你那个”或“你看到那边的那个家伙，那是你的竞争对手，你必须打败那个家伙”，我们从未尝试过去反对它，感觉如此自然，这就是它的本意，我们只是顺其自然。
随着时间的流逝，我们进入了青少年时代，男孩们是不是很激动：“爸爸，我能去参加那个聚会吗？我能不能有那个新玩具、新衣服，或者上帝知道的别的什么”，这一切都让我们感到如此强大，我们如此高兴，好像我们拥有了世界上的一切，因为我们没有意识到，为我们买来虚假幸福所需要支付出去的东西的价值，当我们不在父母身边时，我们的父母会傻笑着说：“总有一天他或她会意识到，他们会开始他们的事业……
有一天我们18岁了，有人告诉我们：“孩子，是时候了，让我告诉你一个小秘密”，然后，拿出一张绿色闪亮的钞票。他们说：“你看这东西，它不是长在树上的，你得拼命工作才能获得它，这就是你余生要做的事情。”
然后它打击了我们，我们顿时觉得世界都不太好了，如果我们仅仅被告知，要顺其自然，不要购买这些虚假的幸福，而是要去生活中寻找真正的幸福。
所以当你再次思考人们为什么追求金钱时，这里有个简单的答案，他们真实想要的是“填补内心的空白”。
It is just because most of the things(not everything) in today's world we get from money only. So the more money the more happiness, less problems. Even people take you seriously if you got the money. People will respect you. You can buy almost anything or any experience using money. So people perceive money as all problem solver and all joy giver. That's why people are greedy about it.
这只是因为当今世界的大多数东西（不是所有东西）我们都是从金钱中得到的。所以钱越多，快乐越多，问题越少。如果你有钱，人们也会认真对待你。人们会尊重你的。你几乎可以用金钱买到任何东西或任何体验。因此，人们认为金钱是解决问题的工具，是快乐的源泉。这就是为什么人们对它贪婪。
Money doesn't make life 100% happy but it does make life happier. I can buy anything that I want and go on any vacation that I want. If my car breaks down I don't have to worry about it. If I want new clothes I can get them. I grew up very poor and now I am very rich. I can tell you, money does make things better.
金钱并不能使生活100%快乐，但它确实使生活更快乐。我想买什么就买什么，想去度假就去度假。如果我的车坏了，我就不用担心了。如果我想要新衣服，我可以买。我从小很穷，现在很富有。我可以告诉你，钱确实能让事情变得更好。
I think that people are chasing money because it is the current standard for value. If you happen to live in a city or a town, the only way for you to acquire stuff is by earning or acquiring money and exchanging it for what you want. Wanna travel? You gotta pay the fare. Want a date, you might have to pay for dinner and it is that kind of life. I tend to think that if I had lived on the farms tending to my fruits, flowers and animals I would not be pressed to chase or need money. But since the human race can only move forwards, for now money is generally thought of as the wildcard for accessing resources.
The obsessive tendencies may also rise because people have associated money with value for quite a long time that they now think money is value. It could explain why most people aim at striking it rich instead of providing value and contributing meaningfully to the lives of the people they deal with. Success has since replaced significance, at least for most people.
我认为人们追逐金钱是因为它是当前的价值标准。如果你碰巧住在一个城市或一个城镇，你获得东西的唯一途径就是挣钱或获得钱，然后把钱换成你想要的东西。想旅行吗？你得付车费。如果你想约会，你可能要付晚餐费，这就是生活。我认为，如果我生活在农场里，照料我的水果、鲜花和动物，我就不会被迫追逐或需要钱。但由于人类只能向前发展，目前人们普遍认为金钱是获取资源的通配符。
这种强迫倾向也可能会上升，因为人们很长一段时间以来一直把金钱与价值联系在一起，现在他们认为金钱就是价值。这可以解释为什么大多数人的目标是变得富有，而不是提供价值，为他们所接触的人的生活做出有意义的贡献。至少对大多数人来说，成功已经取代了意义。
Deposition for crisis management is a natural tendency common to all living beings. Fat bodies in animals and starch deposition in plants are very common examples. A strong chemical check, however, regulates this so that the process goes in right manner. Occasionally, this check fails and this failure is a disease. Some highly obese people in society or unusual sized radish in market seen occasionally are the resultant of this disease.
Similar is the case in money matters. Some people are unable mentally to determine how much is actually too much for them. Though the limits may varry person to person but always with an end point. The auto check in these people shuts off and they are in constant run in accumulation of more and more.
危机管理是所有生物共有的自然趋势。动物体内的脂肪和植物体内的淀粉沉积是非常常见的例子。然而，一个强有力的化学控制可以调节这一点，从而使过程以正确的方式进行。偶尔，这种控制会失败，这种失败是一种疾病。社会上一些高度肥胖的人或市场上偶尔看到的不寻常大小的萝卜都是这种疾病的结果。
金钱问题也是如此。有些人在精神上无法确定多少对他们来说是太多了。虽然限制可能会因人而异，但总是有一个终点。这些人的自动控制系统关闭了，导致他们从不停止，积累得越来越多。
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it makes misery a whole lot easier to live with.
金钱买不到幸福，但它使痛苦更容易忍受。
Short answer...I blame Evolution. I think it's simply our survival instinct. Money gives us food and shelter. Now of course there are people that want more money than it is actually needed to survive, these people are exhibiting greed. I believe that this also has to do with an instinctive drive to win.
简短的回答一下。我把这些归咎于进化论。我认为这只是我们的生存本能。金钱给我们食物和住所。当然，现在有人想要得到比生存所需的更多的钱，这些人表现出贪婪。我相信这也与赢得比赛的本能驱动有关。
Statistics show that though an abundance of-money does not make you happier, being able to easily pay your bills actually does. So people have all kinds of issues in life, going-through those combined with stress base on a lack of money is worse. Also it is the most common measurement of success and many feel they can boost their self-esteem with it. However, if the problem they have is not a money problem then obviously money won't fix it.
So it reduces stress and can make us feel better but we delusionaly think it can make us feel better about ourselves and will solve our emotional problems. So of course people are obsessed.
统计数据显示，虽然钱多并不能让你更快乐，但能让你轻松地支付账单，这确实能让你更快乐。因此，人们在生活中有各种各样的问题，经历这些问题加上缺钱带来的压力会让生活变得更糟。此外，这也是衡量成功的最常用标准，许多人认为这可以提升他们的自尊。然而，如果他们的问题不是钱的问题，那么钱显然无法解决问题。
因此，它可以减少压力，让我们感觉更好，但我们妄想它可以让我们感觉更好，并解决我们的情绪问题，就这样，人们被金钱困扰。
The dictates of how well life can be lived will always be economically driven.
If a car is a car and I asked you to pick between my 1998 minivan and a new Porche, if you had the dough you know which would go.
The great goals of money:
1. To live in retirement and not worry about money.
2. To intervene in our childrens lives with financial assistance.
3. To put our grandchildren through college.
4. To leave behind a legacy of continued good deeds.
生活的好坏总是由经济因素决定的。
如果一辆车就是一辆车，我让你在我1998年的小型货车和一辆新的保时捷之间做出选择，如果你有钱，你知道你会选择哪辆。
关于金钱的伟大目标：
1.退休生活，不用担心钱。
2.通过经济援助干预我们孩子的生活。
3.让我们的孙子们上大学。
4.为了可持续的善行，留下足够的遗产。
Some people equate the amount of money they have with their self worth, their value as human beings. Some others are obsessed with money because of what it can do for them, or they may urgently need it for family reasons. Some people are obsessed with the thrill of the chase in gaining as much money as they can. Others just like having it in the bank, even if they never spend any
有些人把他们拥有的金钱与他们的自我价值，他们作为人的价值等同起来。有些人沉迷于金钱，因为金钱能为他们做些什么，或者他们可能因为家庭原因而迫切需要金钱。有些人沉迷于追逐的刺激，尽可能多地赚钱。其他人喜欢把钱存在银行里，即使他们从不花钱。
Nobody is actually mad about money, they are mad after the things money can buy, the avenues that open when you have money, the psychological (not to mention monetary) advantage you hold over people poorer than you, the comfortable homes you can afford and so on. If you have lots of money, there are lesser limitations you will face.
事实上，没有人会为钱发狂，他们会为钱能买到的东西发狂，为你有钱时打开的通道发狂，为比你穷的人带来心理（更不用说金钱）优势，为你能买得起的舒适的房子发狂，等等。如果你有很多钱，你将面临较少的限制。
Because it is so NICE!
I'll not expand on that, it's pretty obvious why having it is nice. It gives independence from work and increasingly it seems from lots of othe social obligations too.
This freedom is both pleasant and narcissistic - and that's where the obsession creeps in. When you forget that edge, the simple fact that money represents the hard work of yourself and others, when it becomes an end in itself it is very, very, hard to remain sane. The need for money starts to overshadow other considerations, and that well paying job in the gun factory becomes a comfortable little world in itself, the use to which that gun you crafted becomes none of your business. Just as well, because if it was, well, the whole thing might become just a little uncomfortable ..
因为它太好了！
我不会详细说明，为什么拥有它是件好事。它使人从工作中独立出来，而且似乎也越来越不受其他许多社会义务的影响。
这种自由既令人愉快又自恋——这就是痴迷的根源。当你忘记了这一优势，一个简单的事实，即金钱代表着你自己和他人的辛勤劳动，当它本身成为目的时，保持理智是非常非常非常困难的。对金钱的需求开始掩盖了其他的考虑，在枪支制造厂的高薪工作本身就变成了一个舒适的小世界，你制作的枪的用途与你无关。好吧，因为如果是的话，整个事情可能会变得有点不舒服。
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I don't. That's probably why i'm in need of it.
我没有。这可能就是我需要它的原因。
Perhaps, our minds have been brainwashed by the media to celebrate materialism.
也许，我们的思想已经被媒体洗脑，以赞美物质主义。
because there is nothing without money everything is money,the person without money has no value no one respect him or her.
money=respect
money=food
money=everything
thank god there is not money=oxygen
in short money=life.
I hate money but I need money
因为没有钱就没有任何东西，一切都需要钱，没有钱的人就没有价值，没有人尊重他或她。
金钱=尊重
金钱=食物
金钱=一切
谢天谢地，现在还没有达到：金钱=氧气
简言之，金钱=生命。
我讨厌钱，但我需要钱。
Because they have an illusion money can make them happy. Women won to be more beautiful, men want to have higher status. Both things are achievable with money. It makes perfect biological sense as beautiful women and high-status men have more options in terms of sexual partners and more privileges of making choices.
因为他们有一种错觉，金钱能让他们快乐。女人想变得更漂亮，男人想拥有更高的地位。这两件事都可以用金钱来实现。这在生物学上是完全合理的，因为漂亮的女人和地位高的男人在性伴侣方面有更多的选择，也有更多的选择特权。