Can money bring peace to the heart?

Money might not bring peace to heart but without money hardly anyone can be peaceful.

Money is inevitable in today world unless you are living off the grid then you may have peace without money. However, in comparison, an off grid life is even harder since you have minimum access to civilized world and would require to work hard to keep subsistence, that will spare you little time for your own meditation or simply rest.

Money if acquire to comfortable level will offset you lots of effort in living. Especially in unforeseen circumstances such as serious illness. Without money is a big headache and will drag family member along.

In the bigger scale, a country need money for daily operation and future planning. It is because of money that country rage war against one another. Millions life were lost due to rivalry for resources and most often it is a few top people that made the decision& profit from it.

Peace is costly. Many enjoying peace without knowing that without good defense system others country would take advantage of another country resources. A poor country always succumb to corruption because everyone is too frustrated with living in poor condition that prompted the easy way out. This also correlate with crime rate and safety index. Without feeling safe, nobody will have peace. Those who know Maslow hierarchy know that.

Peace also means the space for freedom of speech, descent, religious beliefs, property ownership, movement and so on that enshrine in the UN Human Right charter.