Wealth condensation

According to Nick Carraway, “You can’t repeat the past,” Gatsby astonishingly replies: “Can’t repeat the past? … Why of course you can!” To Gatsby time appears as submissive to his will as wealth or power. (Miller) All Gatsby wants is to turn back time to before he was well known and wealthy, he wants to be great. How does he achieve this “greatness” you may ask? Gatsby’s actions prove him to be a sincere and loyal person, even during a time of corrupt social values. From taking the blame of…

related to the lower revenue. Therefore, they feel lower happiness due to they invariably plagued by personal difficulties which comes from the lack of money. Secondly, most individuals are worse off due to the growth of income gap bring most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few who is in the group of top-income. Moreover, the rich are becoming richer, and the poor are becoming poorer. Therefore, the life turns into a harder for the lower-revenue people, and it leads them to…

(paragraph 27). Well, the sailboat doesn’t actually have a motor. In fact, it likely has the same use value, what it can do, as the cheaper sailboat. However, due to one’s conspicuous consumption, buying costly goods in order to impress people with their wealth, do we see this sailboat being sold at this price. Despite Sylvia believing their has to be something special with this boat, there isn’t anything, besides its sign-exchange…

good and leads up to him getting money. The deal is if Tony kills a man named Emilio Rebenga he will receive his green card, which he does kill him. People will do anything if it means bettering their lives and their wealth. After all the corrupt things Tony ends up doing to gain wealth such as selling drugs and being involved with mafias, he ends up dying by falling into a pool with a quote that reads below him that says “The world is yours”. A good life in the United States requires money…

"Why did the Industrial Revolution start in England?" The Industrial Revolution occurred in England for a few main reasons. One of the reasons was that the wealthy people in England were greedy during this time period. So when something could be done to make them more money these people jumped on it, bringing in more business.. Almost none of this would be possible if England didn’t have the raw materials to continue with industrializing. England is was full of coal and when the english people…

results, a phenomenon known as the Hedonics Treadmill, is a theory that assembles an explanation for the failure of the materialistic philosophy. First introduced by Jean Jacques Rousseau (2014), the Hedonic Treadmill states that whatever level of wealth or material goods a person has, they’ll eventually adapt to it and always want more (2011). This strongly hints towards an increasingly high level of dissatisfaction, which can be assumed to contribute to grief’s…

“On the Death of Journalism – and of My Career at the Independent Newspaper” by Christina Patterson is a piece about the death of journalism and the following consequences as a freelancer. Patterson, a well-established journalist who has worked for “The Independent Newspaper”, claims that traditional journalism is dying. Patterson bases her claim upon various observations. For example she states that all the established newspapers based in USA are experiencing an eight-figure yearly downturn in…

There has been a long political debate over who is gonna be our new president. Over the two candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I side with the democratic candidate, Hillary. Hillary has ideas that will not only make our country better, it will make it stronger. For example, women won’t get lower wages than men, she wants to invest in the middle class, and make the rich pay their fair share. Hillary is the better choice because she is a strong independent and dependent women and that’s…

Few gestures could be considered more transgressors than to be stripped of clothing in public as a symbol of renouncing wealth. St. Francis of Assisi did it. For Francis there was no turning back. The young man had decided to abandon his careless existence to marry "Lady Poverty." Such act was made when his father and the judges and the Bishop of Assisi believed him to be little more than a lunatic and demanded that he return the money of the family which he had given to the poor. But what was…

I have always known that there was some kind of inequality in the distribution of wealth between poor and rich people ( elite class) in this country. I had always believed in this idea of meritocracy and in upward social mobility for poor people or the working class. I thought that with enough hard work, even if this gap can’t be closed, it can be reduced. But what I did not realize was how large and wide this gap is. After reading the book “The absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian” and…