Jay Gatsby is also wealthy but would rather simply be affluent. By placing the characters in compromising situations, Fitzgerald expresses the pain and misery that can result from careless actions and heartless words. Throughout the novel, the 1920s are portrayed as a moral wasteland. The lives of the wealthy are a moral wasteland. However, this is not to be confused with the lives of the affluent.
One of my main takeaways from this topic is that money isn’t the best motivator. According to Mayo’s Hawthorne effect, employees feel more motivated when their efforts are recognized, and this can be achieved through bonuses for example. However, this can increase individualism as employees will focus on outperforming their peers. Intrinsic motivation helps create loyal employees who are more satisfied on a personal level. An example of this could be social security benefits.
Even though Lennie is a different person from the other people, he has good intentions. Lennie is not smart enough but he can be a good friend. He is loyal and people can trust him. That the reason why George is Lennie’s friend. George does not care about Lennie’s situation and he trust in him as Lennie trust in George.
Gatsby used to be very poor and always wanted to be rich. After losing Daisy once, Gatsby was dedicated himself to win Daisy back. But his approach toward getting rich was not so clean, which ultimately led him to his death at the
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.
Although both groups had similar purposes for their explorations, they have different goals, the achievements and failures. were more concerned with colonization, debtors and prisoners to get rid of the old world, and to achieve religious freedom. Spanish and English explorers to support the newly settled colonies need to make some sort of revenue.They also harvesting sugarcane, "rich man's crop", investment and although it took hard work and labor, and slaves require a large amount of work, it was still a source of income. They also set up foreign trade. Central and South America had settled in Spanish, the English chose to explore North America.Either find it or steal gold, or by serving as a trading post was established to make money.Tobacco proved to be easy to develop and bring in a great deal of revenue for the colony.
The problem with this scheme is that it works by stifling innovation and competition. The wealthy stay wealthy by extracting value instead of creating it. The more value they extract, the more laws they write protecting the rights and privileges of the extractors. As companies like General Electric realized, it was better to sell off productive assets and become more like a bank. The system was created for people who have money to make money.
Religious and other sentimental excuses for unity are second to economic relations. Feudal society ranked people on their possessions, those at the bottom have no possessions. People soon realized that trade creates wealth and even enemy countries begin trading with each other because the creation of wealth is more important than religious or political differences. When production method changes, it also changes the people’s
The myth is created by the following misconceptions about ethics: 1. The general conception that ethics is an ideal system, which is all very noble in theory but no good in practice. 2. Ethics is inapplicable to the real world or to one’s professional life. Because ethics is a system of short and simple rules like ‘Do not lie’, ‘Do not kill’ and ‘Do not steal’, this prompts that ethics is not suited to complexities of life.
So, when a person forgets the true essence of the things then there develops the feelings of desire. Similar is in other case, as he gets the money, after sometimes he is instincted or stimulated with certain feelings which makes him to think or imagine over the effects of money forgetting its true essence. Here the effects of the money is but to buy more and more of royal comforts and to be rich. A person thinks that the effects are beneficiary and are always in favour of him/her, but as he gets more and more of rings,money and desires then even the risks of theft, robbery, stealing,