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This should be in r/CaptainObvious.
The concept you are misquote is "The love of money is the root of evil".  Money, in and of itself, is morally neutral. What a person is willing to do to acquire money or with obtained money is not a morally neutral act >

Ah. I was not aware of the original quote. I'm sure you can agree, it's more common to just hear "money is the root of all evil" rather than " the love of money". I agree with you. Money should never be the master. It's a tool and nothing more. 
I also think evil people that have money are what warp the societal view of wealth and money. >

One other clarification is a more subtle matter of translation, and opinions do differ, but 'the root of all evil' is not quite right in the sense of 'responsible for 100% of evil' as we perceive with today's English.  It would be more accurate to say 'the root of all sorts of evil things' instead.  As in not the root of every possible evil just a wide variety. >

Yes, this... which is why many people think that money itself is the root of all... and thus feel that complete self-deprivation of any form of material possession will bring them bliss.
While it's true that material things do only give us temporary joy, complete asceticism and deprivation does not bring enlightenment. >

The love of money is the root of all evil. >

I think this is the most misquoted verse of the Bible.  Here is the real verse 
10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Essentially it says that money is not the problem but that the over-desire of money can be a source of various kinds of evils.  For OP, I think scripture agrees that poverty can be its own temptation, and that's one reason why Jesus often spoke of giving to those with less. >

Very thoughtful and original. >

Although, the first study they mention is pretty flawed. They drew conclusions based on driver behavior at a single intersection. Ie, those results could be completely different than the same test conducted in another part of the US or in another country. >

Different types of evil. >


Aside from what's been pointed out re: "The love of money is the root of all evil"...
"While money is powerful and can create large scale evil effecting millions."
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"I think the lack of money, causes more problems in the majority of the world. I was brought up in poverty and watched the lack of money destroy my family and families like mine."
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Why do you believe you grew up in poverty?  Was your father a lazy drunken drug addict?  Or was it... 
Chicken and egg.  Your poverty is probably due to those in power 'creating large scale evil effecting millions'. >

I think being uneducated and thinking your abstract notions of the world are reality without any lived experience and absolute certainty on it is evil. >

I'd be willing to wager that a majority of families who are bad with money, will also tell you that money is the root of evil. A severe portion of this country (america) is financially illiterate. Having little understanding of how money works, yet hating folks with the ability to generate wealth. I understand that I see what I believe. And I was raised around those kinds of people. But it's still prudent in the places I visit and spend time in. and I hear it even tho I have changed my own perspective.  "money is the root of all evil". And I disagree. >

*Nestle enters chat >

Tell that to fucking planet undergoing a climatic disaster in the very near future because billionaires need more money >

like it comes out because money is the excuse to do horrible things? >

This is just incorrect.
Like, extremely recently, Wizards of the Coast, and Hasbro by extension, have gotten shit for two very greedy reasons.
One was for Magic the Gathering, where, for the game's 30th anniversary, wanted to sell proxy packs, or in other words packs with cards that are not legal to use in competitive play, for $1000. Specifically you got 4 packs of randomly selected cards for $1000, and you can only purchase this scam on the official Wizards of the Coast website.
And the second was Wizards of the Coast trying to revoke it's Open Gaming License for Dungeons & Dragons, a License that was made with the specific purpose to be permanent and irrevocable and allow any third party creator open access to the IP of Dungeons & Dragons to help it grow and evolve, so that they not only are able to collect revenue from the bugger third party content creators, but also give WotC the right to use the 3PP's content and release it under WotC's name, on top of being able to change and modify the License however they see fit in the future and drop creators from the License for any reason they see fit.
Both were decisions made by a $1B company, for the purpose of trying to exploit their customers and reap in additional profits, caring more about making money than the happiness of their own communities.
Greed will make people do stupid things, and will cause people to hate them. >

Money didnt breed greed. Greed existed before money. Money is not the root of this evil. Also, the companies have a right to do what they want. This seems far less important than a father and son hating each other over mere materialistic things like money. Or a family hating a member of their family because of money. >

I'm sorry that you are not up to date with this kind of news, but the point of the OGL is that the companies can't do whatever they want legally speaking. In fact, not only are other large companies who have their priorities straight plan to sue WotC if they still go forward with their plan (since they are hesitating due to backlash) but they have announced their own OGL that is also system agnostic.
Sure it might not be like major political news or like Amazon Warehouse news, but it is still extremely huge.
Please don't be ignorant and research topics before waving them off. >

So money is still the root? >

Good question. I don't think so. I think it just magnifies evil >

So you think it comes from a place beside the money, like it comes out because money is the excuse to do horrible things? But it’s always present in the person? I can see that if so >

Even in poverty in the Western world today you live better than 99% of humans to ever walk this planet. You live a life of opulent splendor that a peasant farmer in the middle ages never could have dreamed of. But you consider yourself impoverished because you don't have things that didn't even exist 100-200 years ago.
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Human envy is the root of evil. There is no amount that will ever be enough for most people, you will always want more. There is no static measurement that we will ever be able to say we have "beaten poverty" at. If we were to have set that standard 200 years ago then nobody today is impoverished in America. Even the homeless have better access to food, shelter (if they are willing to follow the no drug/alcohol rules, which almost none will), medical care, and other services than the working class of 200 years ago. Nobody is at risk of starving to death today. Everyone had access to a level of education today that was unheard of throughout most of human history. You are litterally on a device that lets you communicate around the world instantly and gives you access to most all human knowledge available. 
Your problems are trivial compared to those of your ancestors, it's just your expectations compared to other people today that makes you feel this way. >

Money alone won't make you happy, but crying in a cab is more comfortable than crying on the subway. >

The way you're measuring more is interesting.
There are more people without enough money so there are more of them committing smaller evils.
There are less people with enough money to create major evils, but when these people act evil it affects many more lives.
One effects more lives the other has more people doing it.
Why are you comparing it? It's all evil. And you have no real way of measuring the effects anyway. >

I mean, its worth an upvote because its unpopular for sure, and I certainly don't want to diminish your own experience growing up, but the scale of inequality makes me feel strongly that those with vast supplies of capital do far more evil on far greater a scale than those without. Though tbf, they're different evils. >

Greed is the root of all evil regardless of weather or not currency is involved. >

the desire for wealth (i.e. power) is what causes man to be inhumane to fellow man. it doesn't matter if you have little wealth or vast wealth. >

The lack of money usually comes from the greed of some individuals to hoard all the money and thus making everyone else poor 
So I would argue that greed is the root of evil >

The fundamental problem with all economic systems is that (many) people are inherently greedy and power hungry. Capitalism does better with this than other systems because you typically have to provide goods and services to others that they willingly purchase to get money in the system. Other systems, like Communism, generally ignore this exists and are surprised when greedy people work their way into positions of power and become oligarchs at the expense of the public. 
It is this untamed greed that drives a significant portion, but not all, of evil. >

I agree with you 100%. Seems to me that the folks who hate money the most and preach that money causes evil. More often than not, people that don't have money for whatever reason. In my experience my family is ironically pro capitalism. They don't have much money because they are financially illiterate. But they are the loudest when it comes to saying money is the root of all evil. I feel a sort of guilt for having my own wealth. And it's because I came from a family with no wealth and no clue on how money works. >

You’re absolutely right. 100 years ago Gold and Silver were money. People had money then. >

Ok lil Wayne >

Money can’t possibility be the root of all evil because money is invented long after some people are evil. There is no debate. >

Read it as monkey instead od money the first time >

Those with all the money/power are the reason there are so many without >

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