Money Markets And Madness Analysis

A child asks his father to give him twenty five dollars without a reason. His father questions his son’s need for money; however, he still gives his son what he has asked for. After receiving the money, the son asks his father how much he gets paid per hour of work. His father answers that. With the salary of a doctor, he is paid fifty dollars for each hour of work at the hospital. Then the little child holds his father’s hand and leads him to his little room, takes him to his bed, and then turns over his pillow. It surprises the father when he sees another twenty five dollars already laying there. It is the money that the little son asked his mother to give him the other day. Now, he gives all of the fifty dollars to his father as a payment
That is the thought of most of the populace. Many people include the word money when they were asked to pick five things considered important to their lives. In a short article, “Money, Markets and Madness,” Vanessa Baird addresses “…what money means to us as human beings: the extraordinarily dominant role it plays in our societies, in our psyches, and in determining our very survival” (2). People use it every day to trade goods, such as buying clothes, food, and shelter. In this way, money is important to humans because it is used to exchange goods based on their needs. However, because of greed, some people turn it into something more important than their lives. They try to get as much money as they can even when they have to go out and do the bad things. They let money control their brains. They feel satisfied when they have more money than their peers; it is a fake happiness in a competition with no
For example, people in the mafia earn a great deal of money; the number can go up to the billions. But what they did to bring back that big amount of money is illegal business, such as killing, drugs contraband, which affect community life. In Laura Young’s article, “The Effect of Money on Our Thinking,” she also refers to the recent report in Science, which concludes, “Being overly preoccupied with money, especially for the 'wrong' reasons, is characteristic of those who score highly on a measure of materialism, and such people tend to be less happy than others” (1). Other people like to profit from gambling. I have witnessed the separation of many families because the parents are addicted to gambling. Debt increases each day until their families have to live without a house. Children have to drop out of school and have to go out and seeks job to feed themselves. No one wants his/her family fall into this terrible