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MANIFESTO MANIFESTO INTERVIEW INTERVIEW
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BLAST BLAST
EDITOR CHELSEA LIM / 21 2st Year Graphic Desigm in Middlesex University, London
“I believe that people just naturally are trying to constantly improve their living somehow, and make their best out of their situation, and that’s where money comes in”
MONEY GREED POWER CORRUPTION INEQUALITY DIRTY POLITICS LIARS 1
HOPE PEACE LIFE THE TRUTH FAIRNESS SOULS HAPPINESS 2
FEATURE KEVIN LO / 21 1st Year in Business in Middlesex University, London
“I’ve lived in China almost half of life. Money comes in no matter how they get it. It’s crazy”
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as we have our luxuries “OUR WORSHIP Aswelong don’t really seem to care
FOR MONEY
what is good or bad.
IS DESTROYING US!
Currency was created as a We actually need very little convenient way of exchanging to live on. As long as we have goods and services. clothes, shelter and three meals a day we’re pretty much set.
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“ BUT STILL,
MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND ”
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B L A S T B L A S T BL S
MONEY MONEY IS IS NOT NOT REAL REAL
We work in life to pay bills, spend the majority of our time
doing things we don't want to do, want more money to obtain items that we assign a value to, and even kill one another relating to money.
What has gone wrong?
Currency was created as a convenient way of exchanging goods and services. We created it because it was helpful to use. Now this unreal, insentient concept has somehow developed a stranglehold on the collective human consciousness and we are very much being used by it.
We’re a slave to it.
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Studies have shown
that as long as our basic needs are met and we have a basic level of wealth we’re as happy as we’ll ever be — and that accumulating more wealth, more consumer goods, bigger houses and more expensive gadgets actually does nothing to make us happier.
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Money, for the many is a drug. The more you make the more you want. Being truthful about money is one of the first tests of maturity and control over our emotions. It is true for most human beings. What we see in dentists mirrors human nature.
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If money didn’t exist, half of the crime that happens wouldn’t happen.
IS GREED FOR MORE AND MORE MONEY A KIND OF MENTAL ILLNESS?
IS MONEY THE ROOT TO EVIL OR IS GREED THE ROOT TO ALL EVIL? 10
IS IS GREED GREED GO G M0NeY MoNeY M0nEY,
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IT MUST BE FUNNY IN A RICH MAN’S WORLD!
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GOOD? GOOD?
We need power for very basics of life.
NOTHING IS FREE.
MONEY IS THAT POWER. The definition of greed is that it is an intense and selfish desire for something,
wealth, power or food. While most people view greed as something to be looked down upon, while in actuality greed can be both good and bad.
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I WANT MORE I WANT MORE People fight, cheat, kill, and betray each other for money. Many people become so hardened by their relentless pursuit of wealth that they cease caring who or what they have to trample on to get it.
People are actually willing to kill in order to amass money, and frequently do.
Recently, a British man who was selling fake bomb-detectors to countries like Iraq. He knew they actually didn’t do anything, and he surely must have known that people would lose their lives using them, yet he didn’t care because he was making millions from the sales.
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BLESS BLESS GREED GREED GREED IS FREEDOM Greed can understandably be considered
evil or a sin, but it is human nature and it is life.
All decisions we make are based on some branch of greed and without it there is no happiness or success.
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GREED IS FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM People use greed to become successful, but it effects everyone and it can’t be avoided. Let me give a very broad and distant example; Your family lives in a town that gets its water from a single reservoir, a rich man moves in on the other side of the reservoir and begins to purchase very large amounts of water for his own personal use. Your family soon begins to suffer because there is less water for you to use and you have to pay more money to get water.
Is your desire for more and cheaper water greedy? Yes, because greed is about wanting more, and you would want more and cheaper water. Without greed life is taken from you and happiness cannot be found.
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F OOD HO ME CAR E XPE R I E N C E CLOTH ES HE A LTH T RAVE L E DU CATI O N SA F ET Y
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