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Who makes money and who cares? What is money? A symbol of wealth as described in text books? Congealed energy as I’ve heard it described in think tank circles? However it is explained, money cannot be eaten. For protection from weather, one newspaper outranks a hundred-dollar bill.
Mostly, we could agree money needs the helping hand of a number to make it relevant and a country to make it real. Countries can be relevant only as long as they have a currency. Be it cruzeiro or yen, we identify with a qualifier in front of the currency’s name (Brazilian and Japanese). Currently it takes less than .80 Euro to buy a US dollar.
We used to hear about “the almighty dollar” but not now.
All Americans do not think the same about money. Some, with piles of it, worry that if they don’t watch out, “the government” will write laws to tax it. Those most covetous even worry about what the government wants to do with it after they die.
Some of us have enough to “get by” but are afraid of falling behind. Our table talk is filled with “what ifs.”
And then there are those who scarcely have money. They live from paycheck to paycheck, hoping there’ll be one. In their world, they hope the lights stay on so they can watch beautiful cars hug the curves of American scenery and movies where there are other curves to be hugged. To break their trance, politicians come on with flashy ads to tell them how their troubles will disappear if they vote for them. They can’t buy cars. They can’t buy beauty products, and they don’t fall for politicians who “all sound the same.”