In order to understand the meaning and worth of money, or the economic crisis we are facing, one does not have to be an economist, but a philosopher. Thinking about and researching the worth of money, lead me to reading an excerpt from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. More specifically, it was Francisco d’Anconia’s...
“The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.” ~Mad Magazine Mocking the reality of modern American society, Mad Magazine points out our fixation with installments and our ridiculous obsession with consumerism. We seem...
