Many people believed him and gave him a lot of money, but he spent almost all the money for himself. He couldn’t pay back the money to some people. While he was taking money from the people, he collected more then 64 billion dollars from them, and when people tried to see their investments, he used a fake screen computer with ponzie scheme software to present a false investment. This way is similar to Tom’s investment in that, they both were greedy, and acted like friends to people, and made them think that they would become rich. On the other hand, there were many differences between Tom and Bernie.
He stole millions of dollars out of people’s life savings by falsely investing the money they gave him. All for the possession of paper that we give value to. Many took their lives because they had nothing left. In the many ways humans try to be better and more powerful than one another; they can create moral flexibility. This is, in essence, saying that certain rules only apply to everyone else: creating hypocrisy.
Greed of money is a part of human nature and all of us at times can be tempted to put aside our values just in order to get ahead of someone else. The greed for money is a sin that leads to a wide range of serious and violent crimes from theft to murder. The love for money can be a destructive force if we allow it to be. When we allow greed to grow in our lives it can turn into a monster that is hard to control. 1 Timothy 6:10 states: For the love
He differed from the average fraud perpetrator in that he admitted what he had done and promised to pay back the money he had stolen. The more he did it, the more it became an addiction. These characteristics made it difficult to detect him because everyone he worked for and with trusted and liked him. Although they didn’t like him for what he had but
It also is important because it shows that greed is taking over there minds. It also shows how quickly they are willing to bail on each other for money. The quote also shows that their planning is starting to get greedy by wanting to leave one out so theres more for themselves. The quote is also important because it shows foreshadowing that maybe there will be a bigger argument about the money. It also shows how little the men acutely care for each other when there is money involved.
Galbraith Chapters 1 &2 Argument Spans Chapter 1: “The Affluent society” The problem that Galbraith is trying to point out in the first chapter is that “wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding”(p.1). This wealth has brought change among the people but has kept the ideas of the world of poverty. In the past, almost everybody was poor, but today in the affluent world people are consumed with wealth to the extreme point that they begin to believe that they are poor or “ill” With poor understanding, people are not open to accepting new ideas that can aid this new and affluent society. The economic ideas that are used today, that were “once interpreted the world of mass poverty have made no adjustment to the world of affluence” (p.2).
If someone close to me did that I would feel really awful, because we love each other so much that if some one treats you worst than cards, you will feel really bad. The other thing I feel he is doing wrong is trying to find short cuts to get richer. He should have understood that his greediness of having more money was resulting in him addicted to
The obsession with social hierarchy drives people to be selfish and greedy- never happy with what they have. At the same time, there are many people like Gatsby today who feel they have to cheat their way to the top to be happy, like so many corporate giants who have schemed for years and stole billions of dollars from innocent, but maybe slightly naïve taxpayers. Both kinds of people have lost the sense of the American dream. Originally people just wanted a perfect but humble life: a loving, close-knit family, a steady paying job, and ultimately pure happiness. But once people see that it is possible to have much more than that, they begin to get covetous and only want more.
He symbolizes greed because in the beginning of the book, play, and movie, all he cares about is money. We find out later that he was not always obsessed with being wealthy. We also find out that his fiancée left him because he loved money more than her. Everything he does is with the intentions to make money. He would give up all the people he loved for money.
Surely there were poor and rich people and sometimes they wanted to screw with them because they were rich or poor. They probably envied the rich and damned the poor and more than likely they exchanged words and did evil acts upon each other. Documents explain that most of the persons accused were lower income people who were not high ranking members of society. They probably saw the poor as lazy people who didn’t want to make more money or become a high ranking member in the church and to them laziness is seen as an act of the devil. Some of the poor probably had to steal items to keep them afloat, whether it was food, money, or Valuable items and of course if you steal you are already breaking one of god’s rules and they know that you are the devil as the bible leads them to believe.