Has the influence of money (along with its negative effects) on people and society increased or decreased since Simmel wrote down his ideas in the early 20th century?
What will be an ideal response?
• With modern technology, money has largely eroded our distance from objects and therefore their value for most people
• There is little doubt that entities like “wall street” or “the economy” have been empowered over the people who should control them; however perhaps in our daily life of swapping credit cards we are less likely than in times past to relegate qualitative things to a quantitative value
? Probably more so than in times past we are consumed with making money and everything now has a quantitative value
? Today’s culture is even more fragmented than during Simmel’s time, and more of it is for sale
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a. eight b. fifteen c. twenty-five d. forty
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a. high androgen levels. b. undescended testes. c. low sperm count. d. infectious diseases.
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A. total B. desperate C. relative D. absolute