What Money Is
A rather odd topic, but what is money? Well yes I'm aware that it's a form of currency used to exchange goods, but there's a deeper understanding to money. In a nutshell, money equals help. With this mind set you can easily distinguish between what type of money is/should be illegal and is bad for the economy and what isn't.
Money is the equivalent of help, a token of help, a warranty of help. Simply put, the amount of money you have equals the amount of help you give. The richer a person is, the more helpful he is, the poorer, the less use he is to people. The help here can be any kind of help, be it by entertaining them or providing shelter or needs.
Taking things back to the origin, before money was created and used, naturally people used to either gather all their needs themselves or exchange goods. Now when money was eventually used, it was a sort of symbol that you helped someone, and you are due for someone helping you, and that's the whole money system. The more help you give, the more money you get, the more help you can receive.
This is no breakthrough; this is as old as money is. People often mistake money for power. Knowledge is power, money is help.
Now there are some ways of getting money without helping, and that is stealing and other similar forms. Since the thief has not help given to balance out this sum of money, the balance of the economy is upset. And there are people who give help without taking any tokens or warranty in its place. That is charity, by either giving away help (money) without taking any money (help). This restores the balance of the economy and even improves it.
Now stealing is illegal, but some things such as lotteries, large money-giveaways and gambling aren't. Now when you gamble or win a lottery, all you did was pay a small amount of money; gave a small amount of help, and yet received a huge amount of help; a lot of money. So that, when done in large numbers, can upset the balance of the economy.
So give as much help (money) as you can, and take as much as you can. Yes, get as much money as you can, you'd be doing yourself and your country's economy a favor.