Hello Hive family, good day to you and welcome to my entry
Everyone uses money every day, and it has brought a lot of benefits to us in so many ways. Money is one of the greatest tools that has made goods and services easy to exchange, by making buying and selling simple without much stress. Money is what each and every one of us uses to meet our various needs accordingly, such as paying bills, purchasing good food for our families, buying cars, mansions, and many other things. I can confidently say that without the presence of money, it would be very difficult for us to live a stress free life.
Nothing is free in this world, and that is one of the reasons why everyone works hard every day in order to earn a living. No matter how much an individual earns as a salary or wage, it often still feels not enough to solve all our problems. You know, because money is never truly satisfying, and at the same time, problems never stop coming. No matter how much we try to put an end to them, more problems always find their own way of appearing over time.
My response to the theme, which says “If Money Expires”:
The theme raises a question that made me very curious.....why should hard-earned money expire after some time?
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I tried to relate this idea to reality and began to understand how it might become a bigger challenge for everyone to handle. This is because it would affect the normal lifestyle we all live, and the market system of buying and selling goods and services would also change drastically. For this reason, saving money would become very risky and may no longer be a good option for anyone.
Money would become somewhat meaningless because there would be no strong reason to save it for a long time, knowing fully well that it would become useless in the future. One funny question that comes to mind is: Who would act like a fool by accepting money in exchange for goods or services at the dying minute when it is about to expire? Hahaha! Just imagine if such a thing happened in my country or in the world at large. I don’t think the world would function properly if all our hard-earned money expired with no alternative.
In my opinion, money is not something anyone can easily get. It requires a lot of sacrifice before we are able to earn it. For this reason, I would make sure to use all my hard-earned money by exchanging it for imperishable goods, so that when money expires, my stocked goods will not be affected.
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