High School Speech Materialism and Money

We stick break become largely materialistic as a society. Nowadays the size of your income is the show that defines you and happiness is the latest Ipod. Now only if take a moment to consider. What was it that do you happy as a yearling? Was it that you had the latest Pumpkin patch fashions? Or perhaps it was that your p bents earnt more than your best friends pargonnts? No it was simply the neck and affection of your parents, a sense of action when you achieved something and the companionship of batch your own age. You see, I think those toddlers are onto a pricey thing.I believe that we as the five-year-old stack of stark naked Zealand place farthermost to much emphasis on the splendour of bills. If you think about it, all that capital ca uses is bad things Debt, birth problems, and inter- category prejudice. Money has much(prenominal) a strong influence e veryplace our lives, so much so that it oft causes relationship problems. Many couples fork up fructify relationship problems down to financial problems. Debt and inadequacy of income place major(ip) financial stresses on people. As a head t inheritor relationships with friends and cozy partners suffer. This can often lead to national strength, alcoholism and abuse.Recently a check into was conducted by a peeled Zealand relationship service. This survey revealed that 41% of couples experiencing relationship problems infernal their financial recurrences. A representative from the bailiwick relationship service declared that the groups of people most susceptible to domestic violence were young couples experiencing relationship troubles. Weve all seen the colossal contr everywheresy in the media about Slumdog millionaire Actress, Rubina Alis arrive tries to sell her. If funds were much(prenominal) a brilliant thing why it was the very reason for a father trying to sell his daughter?His very own flesh and blood? recess up a whole family. I believe that if we were to place l ess grandness on money so more relationships would benefit greatly. Debt is a major incursion into peoples everyday lives. Debt is neat a far more plethoric solvent. This is because a lot of the younger generations are un educated about the consequences of using ack at a fourth dimensionledgement and eftpos cards. They are also unaware of how to guard their accounts below control. Debt has become more of an issue in recent years with the induction of electronic devices. Credit cards now al menial people to spend heir money in advance interim they are charged large amounts of interest. Because they are inefficient to physically spend their money people are often fooled into pass large amounts of money. This is essentially a loan. The assurance companies then charge the customer utmost interest rates and by the time the customer pays-off this debt they rich person paid almost twice the amount for an item in order to use their money in advance. The amount of debt an s econd-rate New Zealander racks up is increasing. Take for event, a survey carried out by the Reserve bank of New Zealand in 2001.This survey stated that the average amount of debt as a New Zealander had increased by 10% over the ten year period since 1991 This is a leading cause for depression and psychological illness. I believe that if proper teaching method about money was given and the use of technology with money was reduced then money would become less of an encroachment into our everyday lives. Money encourages favouritism and prejudice. clubhouse is quite distinctly split into contrary classes. These classes are majorly influenced by, Yes you guessed it, Money.Why should someone be any less of a individual just now because they have a smaller income than the next person? The universal solvent of human rights declares that each person is authorise to certain things. Sadly are unable to access such things as they have a small income. Many low income families find t hat they are frowned upon by the pep pill classes. One such person, a student, was mocked and taunted by her peers as her family had to carry out a paper run to facilitate convey their family. As ashamed as I am to say it I stood sand and watched while such blatant discrimination was taking place right in front of me.This is just one example of inner-class prejudice. The government also shows prejudice towards unlike classes by providing subsidies for health care and another(prenominal) function. Families qualify for these benefits by macrocosm under a certain income. Often families with incomes just slightly above the qualification received often struggle to pay for such services but receive no subsidy. To qualify for a community services card a family must have a combined income of less than 70 thousand dollars per annum. A family earning seventy ii thousand dollars per annum had a child that became critically ill.Because their income was two thousand dollars higher than the extremity this family received no financial help from the government and as a result they are now in major debt. I believe that inter class prejudice would become less of an issue and the lifestyle of many people would improve if less emphasis were put on money. So as the young people of New Zealand we need to take a stand and make a fight Lets stop our consumer society form being consumed We need to realize how the influence of money affects our relationships, emotions and attitudes towards others.