Does "security" mean "money"?

[AlienGirl]

This thought-loop about money/security is driving me nuts:

"The bankruptcy bill just passed. I'm in debt. I'll never get out of debt. If I had money I'd be safe, but since I don't THEY are going to kill me."

I hate thought-loops like that, where my brain takes something that ought to be a blip on the radar and inflates it to, "THEY are gonna kill me." It's especially bad since my brain feels the need to tell me all the ways in which financial security equals physical safety: "People who have money can bribe someone to be safe. People who have money can pay for medical care." and so on.

Shut up, brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!

Ahem...anyway, does anyone else have this problem? Or do you define "security" differently?

Tucker

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Money sure helps, but so do people who'll look out for you, if

You're in trouble, and they can be financial advisers and the like. We can't have too many of those. But personal ones are the best. However, we're not all blessed with family.:shrug:

[xmas74]

2. No.

For me, to be as self-sufficient as possible is more secure. I will never be completely self-sufficient but I can build my own group of contacts for a bartering system. That way, as little of my money as possible is spent and can be saved for times of emergency.
Money is not security. Money is not inherently evil, either. But money tends to make people less aware of what they are buying and how they are spending it.
If you had to grow your own garden to provide for your own food, you would keep track of how much the seeds cost, the labor involved and you certainly wouldn't waste what you grew. Evey last bit would be consumed, in some way or another.
To me, security is the knowledge that I could make a go at surviving w/ as few services as possible and as little money as possible and that I could provide my child w/ a decent life (no starvation, home to live in, etc).

[jmm]

3. It can but it can also make you a target.

I learned that lesson young. There were two Chinese siblings in my neighborhood growing up who would be spoiled during Chinese New Years. Everybody wanted to be their friends then. And what's an ice cream, or a sub, or a move ticket, etc. between friends, especially when one had been given hundreds of dollars? My brother and I tried to talk some sense in them but they didn't want to stop spending their money an lose their friends.