Book Review Of What Money Can T Buy Sandel
In the novel, “What Money Can’t Buy” Michael J. Sandel uses numerous real world analogies to display how incentives and the lack of monetary limits are defacing personal relations, separating society based on wealth, and creating corruption through the commodification of everyday life. The interaction between humans is a crucial part to a healthy and functioning society. Sandel expresses that putting a monetary value on things such as a Papal Mass in New York or a free Shakespeare play in the park defaces personal relations and lacks respect for society. For example, the papal mass tickets were given out for free to local dioceses and local parishes. Before the event an online ticket sold for more then $200. Sandel’s take on this was, “although
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To readers, this specific topic seemed to hit Sandel at home especially with the Skybox example. Sandel writes, “sports stadiums are the cathedrals of our civil religion, public spaces that gather people from different walks of life in rituals of loss and hope, profanity and prayer.” (172) He later on states that sports have become a business that takes away the true meaning of why they were started and negatively impacts the atmosphere of the stadium. In a Ted Talk about the book Sandel talks about when he was a kid he would go the baseball game and the mailman would be sitting next to the business man and everyone in the stadium would be united and rooting for the home team. On page 173 in the book Sandel says, “The advent of skybox suites high above the field of play has separated the affluent and the privileged from the common folk in the stands below.” (173) The separation of society based on wealth is a huge factor in why Sandel believes there should be limits on market items. Throughout the entire book readers find that Sandel believes there should be market limits on objects or services that are sentimental or religious and evoke face to face interaction from people from all different backgrounds. Sandel predicts that if the commodification of market items continues that society will be separated based on dollar signs and people’s characters will become
To readers, this specific topic seemed to hit Sandel at home especially with the Skybox example. Sandel writes, “sports stadiums are the cathedrals of our civil religion, public spaces that gather people from different walks of life in rituals of loss and hope, profanity and prayer.” (172) He later on states that sports have become a business that takes away the true meaning of why they were started and negatively impacts the atmosphere of the stadium. In a Ted Talk about the book Sandel talks about when he was a kid he would go the baseball game and the mailman would be sitting next to the business man and everyone in the stadium would be united and rooting for the home team. On page 173 in the book Sandel says, “The advent of skybox suites high above the field of play has separated the affluent and the privileged from the common folk in the stands below.” (173) The separation of society based on wealth is a huge factor in why Sandel believes there should be limits on market items. Throughout the entire book readers find that Sandel believes there should be market limits on objects or services that are sentimental or religious and evoke face to face interaction from people from all different backgrounds. Sandel predicts that if the commodification of market items continues that society will be separated based on dollar signs and people’s characters will become