Money is a Belief System much like a Religion Worldwide

If we look back to how money started on earth, it started as a convenience only. It was more convenient to carry gold or other metals stamped with the local tribal or national leader's seal than it was to carry bushels and bushels of wheat hundreds of miles to purchase something or to drive thousands of heads of cattle or goats somewhere to purchase something or as a wedding gift for a King or other potentate.

So began the belief system of money. It could almost be said that it was a matter of trust between business associates tribal members and eventually whole nation states full of people for a coin or eventually paper to represent something else.

Over thousands of years of using something to represent something else it reminds me at times almost of our representatives we send to Congress. Money represents work, power, and real goods.

However, over time all this sort of thing called money became corrupted in multiple ways by devious people down through the centuries, people both in governments and in business throughout the world.

And now once again money is being corrupted by the few very rich both in Governments and in Business worldwide. But there is something more ominous about all this that reminds me more of the Great Depression and World War II than anything else.

It is like a Great Economic Battle for the lives and property of the middle Class and poor is being waged against these classes worldwide. And millions of lives are being permanently destroyed and suicides therefore are likely to be on the rise worldwide because of this.

So, the main reason I'm writing this particular article is to make people aware that money is a belief system and each of us buys into this system in times like these at our own peril.

So then, what is important about thinking like this?

What is important is to realize that ultimately the only real things important are food, shelter, clothing, a safe place to live and to be around family and friends. All else is just a belief system and in some ways irrelevant to one's ongoing life.

So, owning a home or property outright with no money owed to anyone is the ideal in times like this. As long as you can feed yourselves and your family and feel safe in your home this is a good thing. And of course one needs to be able to pay the property tax on one's home.

But taking excessive risks like buying a home if you aren't sure if your job will be there soon might just lead to your bankruptcy eventually and with your family out on the streets. This is something seriously to think about around times like these.

One needs to develop a strategy for whatever times one lives in worldwide and these times resemble more the Great Depression than any other single thing. It could get worse than that worldwide or it could ease off. One never knows. However, despite what any one government does or any group of governments does each of us must develop a strategy for ourselves and our families to survive all this no matter what.