Money something all Americans must use to live, without it your chances of living are greatly lowered. This is the reason that many Americans seek out the best way for them to get money or at least do something they enjoy and still get money, but this is not limited to only Americans but anywhere that there is a major monetary. With something as widely used as money is only natural that it has influenced our culture such as what we watch, consume, wear, use and how we interact with other nation and people. With something that has not been around for very long, it has changed the human culture immensely. Humans have needed a way to gain a service or item from other humans and we started with bartering, trading service or an item others needed
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This is mostly true, because America as a capitalist country we reward those who are able to start themselves to move forward in a financial sense by having money, you cannot move up in this nation without money. Money is now the way to tell if you can live you needed it for the basics of life, for the more luxurious things, as well as to help others but we as a nation have found a way to make those that have high wealth to give back income taxes, normally take a percentage of the amount of money you make and then get back some of it depending on how much you have made. The amount of money you lose as taxes can be changed by doing things like community service or giving to a charity, the more you give to charity the less you lose and the better most people will see you. This has helped our culture by giving to others our look as the American nation has gotten to one that is willing to help even with all of the debt the nation has collected. The American monetary system has not always helped our culture forward but has made it go back a …show more content…
“The relationship between income and happiness is extremely strong” (Poppick, Susie) this sort of happiness is mainly due to the fact that, a country has more wealth than another it will have more things to give to its occupants more chance to get jobs, do things for entertainment and even have more food for them survive. Just because you gain money does not mean you will be happier every time you get it, if you were to gain thousand dollars every month for the first few months it would be increasing your amount of joy, but gaining this money will no longer give joy and it will plateau. This is because you gained the same amount every time but even if you were given a percentage increase every month the same will still happen though in a slower rate. The amount you are given or gain in a financial standpoint as a nation is one of the biggest reasons why a country like America is very different from a country like El Salvador. Even a country that has wealth and loses it, they will become an unhappy and grim country quickly like The Great Depression, which was caused by a big stock market crash in 1929. This small history lesson is to show that happiness is one of the biggest indicators of the economic system current standings, why things are currently made how they
This is mostly true, because America as a capitalist country we reward those who are able to start themselves to move forward in a financial sense by having money, you cannot move up in this nation without money. Money is now the way to tell if you can live you needed it for the basics of life, for the more luxurious things, as well as to help others but we as a nation have found a way to make those that have high wealth to give back income taxes, normally take a percentage of the amount of money you make and then get back some of it depending on how much you have made. The amount of money you lose as taxes can be changed by doing things like community service or giving to a charity, the more you give to charity the less you lose and the better most people will see you. This has helped our culture by giving to others our look as the American nation has gotten to one that is willing to help even with all of the debt the nation has collected. The American monetary system has not always helped our culture forward but has made it go back a …show more content…
“The relationship between income and happiness is extremely strong” (Poppick, Susie) this sort of happiness is mainly due to the fact that, a country has more wealth than another it will have more things to give to its occupants more chance to get jobs, do things for entertainment and even have more food for them survive. Just because you gain money does not mean you will be happier every time you get it, if you were to gain thousand dollars every month for the first few months it would be increasing your amount of joy, but gaining this money will no longer give joy and it will plateau. This is because you gained the same amount every time but even if you were given a percentage increase every month the same will still happen though in a slower rate. The amount you are given or gain in a financial standpoint as a nation is one of the biggest reasons why a country like America is very different from a country like El Salvador. Even a country that has wealth and loses it, they will become an unhappy and grim country quickly like The Great Depression, which was caused by a big stock market crash in 1929. This small history lesson is to show that happiness is one of the biggest indicators of the economic system current standings, why things are currently made how they