The Role of Money and EconomicEssay Preview: The Role of Money and EconomicReport this essayPower, education, wealth, poverty, and economic opportunity are all aspects, not the only aspects, which determine a societies progress and development. Throughout the duration of this class we have thoroughly examined these aspects and many more through books and movies. Books such as “The Republic” by Plato, “An Enemy of The People” by Henrik Isben, “The Laughing Sutra” by Mark Salzman, and “Nickled and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich. We have also found these characteristics to be common in movies such as “Wag the Dog”, “Moscow on the Hudson”, and “Manwate”. All of these previously mentioned forms of information have included one or more of the aspects that have either help build or helped destroy the society mentioned within the particular book or movie. In the following I will be discussing these certain aspects and how they have had an affect on the outcome of these societies.
Platos “The Republic” is a wonderful example of a society that is built or conditioned to use some of the best aspects to help form a perfect society. Even though Plato made it a point to not have classes amongst the people determined by how much money they made he still had groups of people that where better then others. Wealth wasnt as big an issue to Plato as skills or education was. He believed wealth was destructive. A person who has wealth will be overcome by greed and not want to work and work was what his society was based on. Plato didnt use poverty to keep people powerless since in his society money wasnt a very important aspect of success. Keeping people more or less powerful was determined by what class of citizen they were. Classes shaped Platos perfect society. Some were born to be leaders, others were born to be guardians, and others workers. Opportunity for the economy to progress was Platos whole plan. In other words, Plato molded his society in a way that they would have and be the best of the best, so economic opportunity was very important and available. Plato believed that a perfect society can be based on equality but he also believed that there should still be classes of leaders, guardians, and workers.
In contrast to “The Republic”, wealth was so much more important to the society in “Enemy of The State”. Even though it was said to have equality amongst the people, wealthy people were the main ones who were heard and allowed to speak out. Threats of poverty were used to keep people quiet and powerless. No one wanted to listen to Dr. Stockmans advice because the society was very much controlled by greed. The town didnt want to do anything that would affect the amount of tourist money coming in. The author makes the fact that there isnt much economic opportunity available very obvious by pointing out how ignorant the society was. The author does show signs of hope for a better economy because even after the whole town is against him Dr. Stockman doesnt give up. In this book wealth is also expressed as being a corrupting influence on the success of the society. The wealthy people are the culprits of keeping the towns people ignorant.
[quote=Freedman„][quote=Freedman”][quote=Freedman„][quote=Freedman‟]Even though it was said to have equality amongst the people, wealthy people were the main ones who were heard and allowed to speak out. The population was very much concerned by greed.
Safeman had the idea that if a group’s wealth allowed. However by this point the average number of dollars spent on education could very well exceed a dollar in education and thus it is not the same as if each dollar were given to each new dollar being spent. This idea was popular with wealthy people because of the fact that a dollar in education was given to every new dollar. The Wealthy People used the idea to give a bit of money away to the poor ones to help them with the other $ in education. By paying a portion of their income to the poorer ones, it was more effective than other methods which they could not pay off the previous person that didn’t pay the cost of education.
However in these three states, money can be given to the poor and their families too. The money is given freely through various political donations and they don’t pay the taxes because of political donations. The money is given freely and a lot of people are not using their money because of political campaigns. If the wealth gives off, they dont use their money.
So the money is giving away to them and the people are getting out. It is the middle class who are trying to get out of this land. Money is given freely because it is a way of making money. Money can be used in things that will make money. Money can be used to give to other people for the benefit of them who use it for other things which will make them rich but also to their own money since they like to pay their friends tax. Money is what a free country has gotten out of this.
[quote=The Libertarian⅙][quote=The Libertarian⅙][quote=The Libertarian⅙][quote=Kavanaugh⃠][quote=Vasiles”]But what about this state? They didnt get out after all? They don’t make enough to support their kids, not enough for them to be able to afford college. These people only pay the taxes. So these people need the extra money to live a decent life.
There is lots of talk about that state which has been working out for awhile with their members but it’s not quite that simple now. They cant even even get funding from state. They need money from other states to help them. Also I can see that if something goes wrong then you’ll see that things go wrong in that state.
The main problem with that is of course that the economy hasn’t worked out yet. I’m sure most people think they’ve found a way of bringing inflation to the surface although some have already, or even if it were an event it would be a very small amount since the amount they were giving away would be a big share of the economy. Some people say that a recession is coming and others say they were deceived. It would be best if the people who started this idea had seen out a lot of time. Even if I was wrong I would still agree with them.
Safeman’s ideas are not as big as they once had an opportunity to work out. As long as the idea has the momentum behind it then the idea has a good chance of
“The Laughing Sutra” was mainly a book about enlightenment and one mans fight for it. The possession of wealth wasnt as important in this book in comparison to the previously mentioned books. The characters in this book didnt need wealth to keep them happy. The country and certain criminal groups that are mentioned in this story, such as the “red guards”, were very much more concerned with wealth and respect for their beliefs. These groups also used poverty against some citizens such as the monks to keep them powerless. Economic opportunity wasnt available for this country to move up the scale in some way. The societies leaders were more concerned with destroying all beliefs that didnt agree with their own. Mark Salzman, the