Is money the root of all evil???(1)

FRANCISCO d'ANCONIA of AYN RAND'S best ATLAS SHRUGGED.WILL TELL ABOUT MONEY, TALENT..............

Reardern heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a girl who made some sound of indignation, "don't let him disturb you. You know, money is the root of all evil-and he is the typical product of money."

Rearden did not think that Francisco could have heard it, but he saw Francisco turning to them with a gravely courteous smile."so u think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have u ever asked what is the root of money? Money is the too of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is that what u consider evil?"

" When u accept money in payment for ur effort, you do so only on the conviction that u will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to the money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of papers in ur wallet into the bread u will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor-u claim statement of hope that somewhere in the world around u there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?"

"Have u ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell urself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to u by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain ur food by means of nothing but physical motions-and u will learn that men's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth."

" But u say that money is made by strong at the expense of weak? What strength do u mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of fools? By the able at the expense of incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of lazy? Money is made before--it can be looted or mooched -- made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he produced.

" To trade by means of money is the code of men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his efforts. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your efforts except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade u his efforts in return. Money permits you to obtain for ur goods and ur labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgement of the traders. Money demands of u the recognition that man must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain not their loss--the recognition that they are not beast of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery---that u must offer them value, not wounds-- that the common bond among men is not the exchange of sufferings, but the exchange of good. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that u buy, not the stoddfest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And then men live by trade --- with reason , not force, as their final arbiter--it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of the best of the best judgement and highest ability---and the degree of man's productiveness is degree of his reward. This is code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?

CONTD..........