often on the forums (and in real life), you can stumble upon people, mostly young people, who are interested in what the word "mercenary".The meaning of this word to explain simply, with the Italian and French it is translated as selfish, mercenary, calculating, petty.Even 25-30 years ago in our country to meet the mercantile people it was almost impossible.Probably affected Soviet education and imposed the belief that all people are equal.However, it was.It is today each person has plenty of opportunity to become richer and more successful, and in those days, to be rich, they need to be born, that is, to be the heir of a statesman or a descendant of a noble person, not to lose his fortune.
people from the working class the way to luxury was ordered.But no one complained, all worked honestly to earn a living, and few people even suspected that interpersonal relationships can be built based on self-interest.Moreover, any more or less mercenary man was despised, mocked.Suffice it to recall even the hero Savely Kramarova in the old Soviet comedy "Big Break".Of course, it is just like everything worked, but for an extra penny was even ready to hold a big dispute, the heavy tank with water until enough forces.
Today the situation has changed radically, and the mercantile person is no longer considered a social outcast.On the other hand, the tendency to actively haggling is welcome, because I believe that only by being able to trade and togovatsya, you can make a fortune if you do not, then certainly, at least, not in poverty.Today everyone is looking for his own advantage in everything the government appoints a ridiculous minimum wage at the crazy taxes walking unclear what;Private employers seek any means to profit at the expense of wage earners;banks issue loans under unrealistic interest ...
And what can we say about interpersonal relationships, when Mercantile girl tends to marry a "C" or, worse, a rich old man, but would not work and live happily ever after!Her childhood "hammered" in the head, the husband is obliged to earn a lot, and his wife - a lot of waste.And such a thing as a "feeling" - this is all from the realm of fantasy and fairy tales about Cinderella.The same can be said about the friendship.Few today would be friends "for nothing."Any mercantile person does not even look in the direction of whose wealth is lower than his own.And if this "friend" to ask for a loan, then he either will not, or will, but under such interest that it would be cheaper to apply for a bank loan.And such people are friendly only as long as all good friends.Disaster struck, help, even moral, mercantile people will not.He was not profitable.
These people utterly calculating, selfish, stingy, greedy.However, most of them prefer to call themselves economically.The paradox in the fact that the more people richer, so it is greedy.Sometimes it comes to the absurd, even when he himself is a pity to spend an extra penny, not to mention someone.He literally "wrapped" on the benefits, like Uncle Scrooge of the famous cartoon.So the money - the money, but do not forget that, apart from them, there is a life that has the ability to pass and end up at the most inopportune moment.And in his old age suddenly it seems that, in addition to bank accounts, remember something more and nothing.
