My group decided to look at money in society, not in the “New car, caviar, four star daydream, think I’ll buy me a football team” fashion, but in the necessity of it. When choosing our individual articles, we each saw money in different parts of society, in sports, in countries, in international exchange, hidden money, money as a style. We couldn’t help but draw our own conclusions about the role money plays. Some of us saw money as evil, some as a God-given right for citizens of a democratic society, but we all could conclude that as much as our opinions differed on the subject of the United States’ fiat currency, we couldn’t escape the green tinted faces of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
As college students in a business school in New York City (quite a cliché, if I don’t say so myself) we’re brought up along these words, “money” “economy” “debt” “loans”. Whether your vision of utopia fits some egalitarian-socialist mold, or a laissez-faire capitalist model, we cannot deny the fact of the matter that we live in a society where money and an individual’s pursuit of happiness are assumed to be one in the same. My group chose money because our country is swimming in it, in surplus and deficit, in supply and demand, in rich and poor, and in greed and altruism.
