During the period of social transformation, money worship emerged. People recognize the importance of money and know that it takes money to achieve their dreams. After all, society has developed to a certain extent, and without money, it is impossible to do things and achieve good development.
When capital began to enter society, traces of capital operation appeared in many fields. To develop the economy, the power system must not be too stuck, and it should be deregulated and capital should be allowed to develop freely. And once deregulated, capital will become unscrupulous, not only to infiltrate all areas of society, but also to guide people to consume. Under the operation of capital, the process of urbanization began. Many high-rise buildings have been built in the city, and the buildings have climbed all the way, while the food has remained stable. As a result, the peasants began to go to the cities to work, otherwise they would not be able to get a good life.
After the peasants moved to the cities, they became the cheap labor needed for urban development. And the city itself not only needs a lot of cheap labor, but also people need to constantly consume it. If people put all the money they earn in the bank, it will bring the economy to a standstill. Only by stimulating people's consumption can capital increase infinitely. As a result, capital began to control production and sales, began to produce many products that people needed, further opened up the market, connected everyone with the Internet, and allowed people to consume at their fingertips. As a result, people are bewitched by capital, and when they see advertisements flying all over the sky, and when they see the advertisements inserted in ** and **, they can't hold themselves, they want to spend the money in their pockets, and they have to worship stars and capitalists, because they all think they are rich.
After a series of social movements, ideology has been diluted and preachingism has failed, which means that the traditional highly centralized planned economic system has become obsolete, and it is reflected in people's behavior, that is, value rationality gives way to instrumental rationality. The appearance of money worship just illustrates the role of value rationality, and also explains the role of money. During the Cultural Revolution, the landlords and capitalists had been overthrown, and people admired the idea of proletarian revolution. By now, the landlords and capitalists have been resurrected and have controlled the flow of capital throughout society. As a result, society began to transform. Because the social system is not perfect in the transition period and does not provide the necessary guarantee mechanism, the monetary integration mechanism is one-way protruding, and the result is inevitably the vicious expansion and abnormal development of money worship. There were once phenomena such as counterfeit and shoddy goods, car bandits, road blockers, corruption, self-interest, misers, and profligacies, which just illustrated all kinds of discomforts in the transition period. Even now, there are still many phenomena of abnormal development, the gap between the rich and the poor is too large, the bride price is rising, and the amount of corruption is huge, all of which can explain the rampant situation of money worship.
Traditional societies value morality rather than money. After all, the traditional society is a society dominated by agrarian civilization, not a society dominated by industrial civilization. People in traditional societies pay attention to faithfulness, affection, conscience, benevolence, etc. People within the village will be self-disciplined and will help each other. Up to now, with the development of industrial civilization and the penetration of capital into various fields, it is necessary to lead people's consumption and create a lot of investment and consumption patterns. Treat real estate as an investment and wealth management product, develop **, projects, and engage in Internet finance, all of which rely on money to support operations. It's much more convenient for people to go out and take a car, or drive themselves, but it's still difficult to walk without money. Conscience can only be addressed to acquaintances, but not necessarily to strangers. Many people do all kinds of immoral things against strangers, and even do some lawless things. Some people sell things on the side of the road, and they are short of two pounds;There are supermarkets that casually raise the ** of certain goods;There are many counterfeit and shoddy products in the local area;The number of corruption *** is getting bigger and bigger, and so on. In the process of socialization, moral restraint does not play a decisive role, or even does not play a role at all.
Those who violate public order and good customs are not ignorant of morality, but "pretend to be confused", that is, deliberately extinguish their conscience, just to worship money and pursue the maximization of interests. Whether it is factory pollution or the emergence of a large number of counterfeit and shoddy products, it is all related to money worship. In order to maximize profits, capital does not take into account morality at all. In other words, capital does not have moral attributes, but only appears in pursuit of value-added, and when it sees 300 percent of the benefits, it dares to trample on all human laws and morals. The power system is often bought by capital, to stand for the capital, but also to give the green light to the capital, and even some places have set up investment banks, to concentrate capital in certain areas, and even to invest in concept stocks, just to make money in the short term. Under the operation of capital, everything has changed. People have seen the importance of money, and they must pursue money and become rich people in order to achieve good development.
In a backward natural economic society, deception and fooling of strangers can bring glory to people and thus obtain symbolic capital. The same is true in economically developed societies, where some people dare to take risks and produce a lot of counterfeit and shoddy copycat products, which not only are not seized, but make a lot of money. As a result, people followed suit, and when the competition passed, one or two companies were left to become bigger and stronger. In other words, no matter how you get rich, as long as you are rich and rich, you will be considered successful. Nothing else matters, even happiness is a day, and having money is the ultimate goal.
Money worship is not reliable, and it is necessary to carry out moral education activities, let moral condemnation, legal punishment and other means play a role, and improve the moral level and spiritual quality of the whole nation, which can be regarded as a good way of development. If we are at the mercy of capital and blindly worship money, the consequences will be very ......serious