Oh, it's all money!
Many people must sigh like this.
Yes, why bother, human lives are always greater than money.
For me or most people who haven’t seen much money---it’s a challenge to watch workers counting money at the bank, and suddenly become a millionaire and multimillionaire, even though I’m not a regular visitor to the lottery station. , But often like to look inside when passing by, maybe the middle-aged man who always wears the old jacket will be a million or even a billionaire tomorrow! I have never seen a real millionaire in my life.
It’s not a rare thing to get rich overnight. It’s like a demolished household in the news. An acquaintance has become a millionaire because of road construction. In fact, the person is still that person, or the face that has been known for a long time, but When they met again, both parties suddenly became uncomfortable, always feeling that they had spoken with a little more respect, and the other party also began to have almost inconceivable arrogance.
The person is still that person, but there is more money in his pocket.
People say that women get rich when they become bad, and men get bad when they have money. In fact, money is a neutral thing and has no moral meaning. Like Timon in Athens, it is not so much a curse of money as a curse of human nature. It's not that money itself has magic power, but people give it magic power. The key is human heart, not money itself.
Capra's film tells the story of getting rich overnight.
The filming time of the film was shortly after the American economic panic in the 1930s. The Roosevelt administration introduced a series of policies to improve people’s livelihood and implement social welfare. The mainstream intellectuals in the entire American society tended to be left-wing and criticized the monopoly of big capital. , Advocating the idea of harmony, simplicity, mutual assistance and hard work in a small western town. Capra’s several classic works of this period, and even his most humane figures, all promoted this idea. The big capitalists in his works are clowns, obese, greedy, and lack the Christian spirit of fraternity. It has a taste of Sherlock, and the positive characters in his film, whether it is the idealistic councillor Mr. Smith, or the small banker who provides housing loans for the poor, the protagonist of the film inherited the property, Mr. Deez, and even that night. The decent journalists who only took dozens of money from the rich father in the romantic style all showed an American-style simplicity and a sense of social justice. His movies are almost fairy tale-like, relaxed and happy, with both the passionate feelings and strong family values of Italian immigrants, and the optimism of Americans. The characters in them are idealized and have a fixed set of hostility. When it comes to the love model, his method of telling stories is traditional, the content is old-fashioned, and the thinking is orthodox, but it has a long-lasting charm, much like it came out of Pinocchio. His main characters are people who LOTTE bravely confronted the big bosses of big companies, and they show a kind of civilian dignity. As an Italian, he is different from those orthodox Puritans. His characters always smell after work. It's floral, a bit of a mockery of merchants. The protagonist of this film puts his bronze account more important than tens of millions of dollars.
Jali Cooper has a characteristic of making any character self. No matter what role he plays, he is Jaley Cooper, simple, natural, free and easy, and is a typical American man. He played the man who inherited tens of millions of inheritance by accident. He didn't care about money at first, but out of curiosity he experienced his dream, feeding horses with cakes, jumping on the firetruck, his cowboy-like character in the big city He was repeatedly ridiculed and teased, and he was almost obsessed with it. However, after an overturn, he decided to donate his property to the bankrupt peasants. He became an ordinary person and won praise from people and the love of girls. This is typical Capra-style story.
In fact, strictly speaking, the first half of the film is a bit rough and messy. The most exciting part is the final court scene that the director is good at. It is extremely comedy, almost comic-like, and it makes people laugh. This spirit of promoting charity and fraternity is very moving.
What to do when you have money?
Is it to spend extravagantly or do something meaningful? In essence, charity stems from Christian doctrines, and comes from the actual embodiment of the spirit of fraternity and equality. Money is not used to show identity and show off the family, but a manifestation of God’s grace. As a strict Christian, money represents the religion and career. The meaning of the above is greater than the essential meaning. This is the basis for understanding the behavior of rich Americans and celebrities who like to do charity. Although there are also suspicions of tax avoidance, no matter whether their original intention is motivated by profit, they donated to public libraries. A concert hall and a museum were built, and a foundation was established by auctioning off the relics of many celebrities after their deaths.
I think their attitude towards money is at least rational, realistic and admirable.
On the other hand, our rich people in China are very ashamed-maybe they don't think it, because they believe that it belongs to them as a matter of course. It is understandable for a businessman to make money. It is a profession, and it is natural to pursue the maximization of interests. However, the United Kingdom promulgated laws to help the poor as early as Elizabeth I, and Western intellectuals from Dickens to Marx exposed capital society. The reflection has always stopped. Due to the skeptical spirit of Western thought and the moral concepts under Christian ethics, the capital society is constantly revising and perfecting itself, making it more fair and human. Lenin said that it is not unreasonable that capitalism becomes more corrupt as it goes to the east, because the authoritarian political system has not created a truly independent bourgeoisie, especially the middle class, let alone the warriors who produced merchants like Cromwell and Napoleon. , The strong dependence on the system, coupled with the traditional Chinese family concept of Confucianism, only produces half a businessman like the Qiao family compound who laments the use of the wealth of money in the house. Such traditional capitalists naturally disdain to do charity and donation, because this culture only leaves their relief privileges to the government, and the personal and family thinking makes every rich person see charity as a useless stupidity. of.
The most fundamental thing is that this kind of culture lacks the concept of social care and fraternity. If someone like Diez in the film does this, not only will they be accused of being a lunatic, they may also be suspected of having other intentions. Even if it is for self-protection and not to cause trouble, donations and charities cannot become mainstream.
What should I do when I have money? I believe that many people have their own dreams. However, money is not too much, but it is also a scourge, and it will attract a lot of flies. Therefore, I often think of what my grandmother said, and endure it with patience and patience.
Just don't do it.
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