For "money is not everything, but you can't do anything without money." How do you understand this sentence?

First of all, money is not everything. In this society, there are many things that money can't buy, such as affection and friendship. They are intangible, but they are real!

Second, you can't do anything without money. As a person, you must survive first, but to survive in this society, you must buy and consume a lot of things, which requires money!

Money can be given up. Money can indeed be exchanged for many things, thus establishing a relatively wealthy family and living a relatively comfortable life. But life is not just about having enough material to satisfy everything, because besides material enjoyment, spiritual satisfaction is also essential and even more important for a happy life.

Many scientists in China who worked day and night for national scientific and technological research gave up the high salary paid abroad and lived a simple life in China, but they still gained a sense of happiness and career accomplishment. Faced with the choice between national interests and money, scientists chose the former and gave up money.

Money is not everything. Although money is very important and can solve most problems in life, it does not mean that money can solve all problems. For example, friendship, affection and love, as well as respect, trust and reverence between people, can only be obtained through sincere and sincere actions, not through money.

If a person's spiritual world is very empty, then even if there is more money, it may not bring happiness, because money is not everything.

Marx and the View of Money

Marxism scientifically reveals the essence and historical function of money, and holds that money, as a material wealth, is created by human beings and serves human beings, and human beings should be the masters of money, not its slaves.

It is glorious for people to create wealth and obtain property and money by their own labor, but it is shameful to get something for nothing through exploitation, plunder and fraud. Money plays an important role in promoting commodity exchange, but money is not everything. There are more important and precious things in the world than money.

Madame Curie gave up the huge capital of "radium patent" and resolutely announced the smelting technology of radium to the world, and donated almost all her prize money to France in scientific research and war. 1950, the famous mathematician Hua refused the invitation of a tenured professor at the University of Illinois, USA, and took his wife and children across the Pacific Ocean to devote himself to the construction of the motherland.