Cost Benefits By Johnny Cash

In his song, Johnny Cash explores aspects of social responsibility, competitive advantage, consumer choice, inequality, and various forms of cost-benefit action. One can refer to economic concepts in the song starting from the point when the singer acknowledges that his mother wanted to prevent him from playing with dangerous assets like guns as well as emphasizes the role of making proper consumer choices. However, as a part of social responsibility, the singer made a bad consumer choice and used an asset, namely a gun, to commit murder in Reno. As a result, the cost for his actions was a jail time in Folsom prison.
While moving on a train to the place of his incarceration, the singer speaks of economic inequality and competitive advantage