Money can't buy happiness, but it lets you chose your own form of misery.

very very very important - (in the right hands).

Considering the times. Money is a necessary evil. Money enough to do the everyday necessary things. But, it can become so important that happiness seems to be attached to that item. So how important? Let's say important enough to have to exist, but not important enough to connect it to the only happiness there is. nuff said

I feel money is that big brother type context is just cashflow and not control or security really - money is what you do with it.
thinking out loud...
What do you want from your money? What do you do with your money? Is money selfish or does it inspire responsibility?

I dunno, I'm a bit of a hippy sometimes when it comes to material possessions... but then I say that and yes I may not want to buy into buying a new mobile kind of one-upmanship but that example's an easy one for me.

Is money power? in your opinion? Or a nicer connotation to it is to say, is money influence?
Does the money system rather than trading make eveyone more reliant on the rest of society so none of us have actual survival skills - and also make us less aware of what money is doing invisibly?
Is it more useful to be less committed to just a lifestyle (and credit cards and debt and living outside your means) or would money make people happier using it thoughtfully or persuing their own particular interests or rather than more generic status acquistions? (ok it's hard to know what I'm getting at without examples). Like, is spending money on www.tourofcourage.ca more satisfying or worthy than spending less wisely and regretting the disposalness of modern life.

I only have more questions. I haven't worked out my opinion yet. I have seen how lack of money traps people out of choices. Plus of course being financially independent and self reliant is so much better for your self-esteem and just sense. I got a book the other day about planning for your financial future (it's a bit feminist).

Basically though, yes, I think money is important. Ever know anyone who worked for a business which went bust and they didn't get their last pay cheque? What if the same person didn't have anything saved up? And when they ask to borrow off you...
so money is needed for things everyone needs... Food, clothing, shelter... though of course lifestyle variations are huge, if I want the lottery I'd buy this nice house down this road that I walk past... if I won the lottery I'd pay off my siblings mortagages... what difference would that make to our lives.
and in the basics category it can be elabourated on... utilities and the council tax bill and then how everyones money is used and general how society works and provisions such as mass household waste collection - however it affects you, thinking of the essentials along to the rest of the way you relate to it
- money is important yes.
to be pith - how valuable it is is another matter.

(anonymous contributor)

How important is money?

Not sure how to answer that. Try asking Ziggy and Chanelle from Big Brother who ended their whirlwind relationship not 24 hours after it was announced to the housemates that the prize fund had already been won.

Hmmmmmm.