MORONEY
LIKE WHEELS… IT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND
Words: Roger Moroney
About the money… or the thrill of winning?
M
oney. There’s a good name for a song...
if you were to be a devotee of Pink Floyd,
of which I am not. I was when Syd Barrett
drove the ship back in the 60s but not after that.
But money.
Mmmm... quite a talking point is what one has
in the pocket. Money, well that was a post-Syd
hit for the Floyd, a subject he would never have
been part of, as what he was doing was not about
that. Just what Syd was actually doing at that
stage was anyone’s guess, I guess.
Apparently money makes the world go round,
according to an old song, and indeed it does.
We need this ingredient to life called money,
for we live amidst a financially and commercially
driven landscape. It’s always been there, in one
form or another.
We need to make it and we need to spend it, for
when we spend it others make it, and they spend
it and others, down the track, make it.
I think that’s how it works, although my potential
as a potential minister of finance has no potential
at all. If I make a tenner I spend twenty. Hopeless.
The great financial Merry-Go-Round. A simple
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sort of device, although anything financial is far
from simple. There are simply too many angles
and avenues. Because some will always earn a
hell of a lot more than others will ever dream of
earning. The only factor we, of the common
world, have, is the factor called ‘balance’. Getting
things to balance. Income and outgoings.
Which I am sure many of you fine folk out there
are like me and sum such factors up as “oh she’ll
be right” and “what can go wrong?” You know
what I mean… I think.
Shouldn’t have got the case of ale, a six-pack
may have done the job.
We all work (well most of us do) and we all earn
and we spend and this process is part of the
great paper and coinage landscape of life. Or
the evolving world of consumerism if you like.
Like back in the early days when folk would grow
and nurture things and take them to the market
(well before the days of TV and tear-tabs of
course) and sell them. To make a living. Provide
an income. And put tucker on the table and
make sure the kids have lunch for school.
‘To make a living’… that is a very traditional and