Ask Erin: Is the desire to make money a bad thing?
April 13th, 2006 by Erin Pavlina
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Question: Is wanting to make a lot of money a bad thing, even if you’re conscious of being a good businessperson? I’ve always had a drive to start businesses and make money to be secure and to provide for my family, but also for my personal desire to succeed and have fun. I’ve been conflicted with reconciling this desire with my desire to be as good a human as I can be. – Haig
Answer: Money is not the root of all evil, as some people say. Money is merely a resource. It’s a currency. It’s a tool to get things you want. You know the saying, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”? It’s very much the same with money.
Money, in and of itself, is not good or evil. How you make money and use it determines whether you are a being of positive or negative energy.
If you are a being of ill-intent, what you will do to get money may include lying, cheating, stealing, and maybe even murder. If you are a being of good intent what you will do to get money includes providing value to others, helping people grow, being compassionate, and trying to help our planet. Money will come to either person. The amount of money that goes to each person depends completely on the intention the money-maker is putting into that goal.
Who would you rather see holding wealth in our world? People who will murder for money, or people who serve others for money? There is no shame in being obscenely wealthy if you use your wealth to serve Light instead of Darkness. In fact, I would go so far as to say that people of Light should pursue wealth as it is a tool to defeating Darkness.
Be ethical in your pursuit of money and let your light guide your decisions. May you live long and prosper. 
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April 13th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
I think pursuing money is wrong. Pursue service to others and you will become wealthy beyond your wildest dreams. Try to do your job at best your can. Adopt an kaizen attitude (constant improvement) and money will appear as a side-effect. People with a lot of money can do much more good than broke people so there is a real benefit for other in you having more. Make it your goal to help as much people as possible. Spend every day trying to find better ways to serve others and you will acquire enormous wealth.
When you think of money you loose site of ways to actually make those money. Think about providing service and you will become both a better human being and a more wealthy one without a shred of regret or remorse.
April 13th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Quite right
Money itself is neither good nor bad – it’s the way you get and use it that matters.
More than once a friend of mine (or should I say ex-friend…) tried to influence me to earn money by lying to people, pretending to be someone I am not, and so on… He’s doing his own business this way, and for some strange reason, he’s making a lot of money this way.
I’m afraid he’ll crash terribly someday and lose everything – he already lost – or pushed away – most of his friends. He’s on a terrible ego-trip right now.
To use that image again, he had already his wings sprouting to become an eagle, and still they are, but whenever he recognizes a single feather, he’s biting it away. Maybe he’s planning to become the best bear of all bears. He’s always afraid that someone could trick him
It’s very hard for me to see how he limits not only himself, but also the success of his business (and I happen to be one of his employees – at least till the end of this year)…
What I really wanted to say: Making and using money in an unethical manner might lead to quick success at first, but in the long run things money can’t buy will matter more.
April 14th, 2006 at 2:11 am
Peter, I’d go as far as to say that “providing value” will make you money. But “service to others”, in itself, doesn’t necessarily earn money at all. For example, if you go and volunteer all your time in a homeless shelter, you are undoubtedly doing a great service to some of those who need it the most. You won’t acquire enormous wealth, though. In fact, if you volunteer ALL your time, you’ll quickly end up in the shelter yourself.
Pursuing money is no better or worse than pursuing physical strength. What makes it good or bad is how you do it, and what you do with the result. You can, for example, take steroids and go beat people up. Or, you can learn to design yourself a careful, high-quality training program, and then help your friends get in shape…