| wfz said: How is each dollar a segment of your life? You can survive just fine without money, people did it for thousands of years. |
Well, you're right--that's a good way to look at it.
For thousands of years, people put their "life" (time/energy/etc.) into doing things like growing food for their families to eat. At the end of the day, they had converted their sweat into, uh, apples, or whatever.
Nowadays, it's the same principle, but we've created this placeholder for apples to allow people to trade the fruits of their labor (if you will) with greater precision and ease: money. At the end of the day, instead of having spent your lifeforce to walk away with apples, you have spent your lifeforce to walk away with money, with which you can buy apples, or oranges, etc. Same thing, really.
So, when you take away peoples' money for your Good Idea, what you're doing is taking away their ability to buy apples, oranges, whatever they were going to buy. You're going back to that day that they spent at work, and re-directing the purpose of that work, away from what they intended, and toward your own purpose. In essence, you've put them to work for you against their will.
Now, you might decide that your Good Idea is so good, that this is still okay... but people ought to know what they're doing. Like Mafoo says, it's basically taking segments of a person's life.
