There are people in this world that become irrational when they fall in love with their mates, but are blind to the opportunity costs they are exchanging to win their devotion. Basically, according to Brian ORoark, love is the reflection of an inelastic demand curve. Tim McGraw, for an example, wrote a song “Just to See You Smile,” explaining that he would do anything no matter the cost to get his girl to love him. Unfortunately, most people cannot pursue the happiness of their spouse by spending money – even though they ignore the fact that they are penniless because love makes them irrational. By becoming incoherent upon love, it will back fire one financially due to the amount of money one spends for his or her spouse exceeding the income …show more content…
By understanding the phrase, it will allow one to realize when he or she is becoming irrational upon love. In economic terms, the price will continue to increase while the quantity stays the same. This could be a problem for many people and is common base off things that are a necessity. Some examples of a necessity are: food, medication, shelter, and clothes. Furthermore, imagine a patient that has a disease called “Candy Cornoritis” and this patient depends on candy corn to prevent death. Then, the patients went to see a doctor and found out that the doctor that prescribes candy corn will sell it for $10.00. For the sake of the patient life, he is going to buy the candy corns. Now, the doctor may be feeling a bit greedy. So, the next time the patient comes back, he is going to increase the price to $20.00 for the medication. Since the patient has no choice, he had to buy the prescription at any price if he wants to live. Likewise, this scenario can be compared to a love life. Basically, a male will be willing to buy his spouse anything she wishes in order to maintain her in his life. Otherwise, he will no longer have her as a spouse and burry himself in …show more content…
Another word for this is equilibrium, which is the “state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced” (). By shifting the supply curve, it can adjust the equilibrium price by changing its price and quantity. A shift of a supply curve works the same way as the shift of a demand curve. By referring back to Tim’s life, his supply of labor allows him to receive his income he needed in order to make demands for his desire – or his woman’s desire. When a woman has an expensive taste, it will affect Tim’s supply curve because he will not be able to afford songwriters, singers, and bands. This causes the supply curve to shift to the left resulting an increase in price of Tim’s music and a decrease in quantity of his music. If the supply curve continues to shift to the left, eventually Tim will go out of business, and his girlfriend will ditch him because he can no longer keep up with her wishes. So far, everything is going downhill and the opportunity cost Tim made was not worth because it affected his career and his life. However, if Tim decided to his focus on his career rather than his wife, then the supply curve will shift to the right. This depends on the opportunity cost as well as if he is willing to spend less money on his wife and more towards his profession. By having a right shift of
Leo Rosten once said, "Money can't buy happiness." Janie from Zora Neale Hurston's, Their Eyes Were Watching God, would agree with this famous quote. Janie's first husband is financially stable and her second husband is powerful; but it is with her third marriage where she finally experiences happiness and receives respect. Through the first two marriages, we see how worldly desires and pride can ruin a relationship. Ultimately, Hurston portrays that equality in a relationship truly nourishes a bond far more valuable that materialistic possessions or reputations.
During the 1930s, many Americans were forced to move West towards California in search of employment opportunity. This journey was often thousands of miles, making it difficult for families to bring their possessions with them; Americans could only take what they could fit in their car. Since they had limited space, migrants could only take objects that had significant value. Due to the lack of space and high value an object must have to be kept by a moving family, a going away gift had to be meaningful and small; a CD containing specific songs matches these two requirements. The CD for the Joad family has thirteen songs, one for each member of the family. Though all of the family member, and Casy, could listen to every song, there is one song specifically for each person.
...ave money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also, there were many who had neither love nor money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing. (Atwood 126)
This passage marks the first of several types of love, and gives us an intuitive
6. Describe the concept of immature versus mature love using Rilke and Fromm among other sources for elaboration. How does immature love relate to the concept of completing oneself through another? Draw from the Plato's myth of Aristophanes and other sources to illustrate your thoughts.
"When your actions are motivated by love, there is no wastage of energy. When your actions are motivated by love, your energy multiplies and accumulates. And the surplus energy you gather and enjoy can be channeled to create anything that you want, including unlimited wealth."
...lue and having artificial value really changed the amount of power they felt. Research from Stanford shows that the more money people have, the more addictive it is. This causes a problem when people try to obtain items with emotional value, but end up getting caught up in money.
Karen Horney “Distrust between sexes” proceeds go into the different aspects of Love and Relationships. In this book Horney gives examples on how women deal with emotions which transitions from childhood to adult life. The fundamentals of documentation are displayed in unavoidable ways in most occurrences people run into. People are blind to the fact that love in relationships can be destroyed by overt or covert? In some cases lack of sympathy is then blamed, when relationships don’t work out between two individuals. Some couples fall into social, economic defaults which impacts the relationships. These are issues people never stop to think about, all they want to do is shift the blame to one another in a relationship. Self-preservation is a basic instinct for everyone and is present at birth. This can enhance the natural fear of losing ourselves in a relationship (Horney 1930). In Horney discussions I found that a person only feels despair because of the deep emotions of abundant from “Love” during childhood. That can develop more mixed emotions that turn into mistrust, which causes delusions that tell them they are not getting love from their partner (Horney 1930). With these types of feelings mistrust sips into relationships, starting from a child carries over into adult life. Reasons are when a child comes into the world learns everything it needs to know from its parent. If the child’s emotional needs are not taken care of when the family increases, the child will feel a need to compete for affection from the parents, which could turn into a painful situation. With this being said the child grows into an adult with suppressed aggression. If he/she has not learned how to deal with...
“In particular, not only are rates of IPV expected to be higher in a capitalist economy than a socialist one, but rates of IPV, are also expected to be higher during periods of economic downturn and recession than during periods of relative prosperity” (Hattery and Smith 211). Relationships that undergo financial hardships through economic slumps are likely to create problems because doubts are raised towards the ability of the man to provide for his relationship, which trigger outbursts because men see that as an attack on their manhood. But through recessions and lean employment periods, women see the importance in which there are advantages in having an additional income to supplement their living conditions. “Thus, marriage—or long-term
Ninety percent of Americans marry by the time that they are fifty; however, forty to fifty percent of marriages end in divorce ("Marriage and Divorce"). Love and marriage are said to go hand in hand, so why does true love not persist? True, whole-hearted, and long-lasting love is as difficult to find as a black cat in a coal cellar. Loveless marriages are more common than ever, and the divorce rate reflects this. The forms of love seen between these many marriages is often fleeting. Raymond Carver explores these many forms of love, how they create happiness, sadness, and anything in between, and how they contrast from true love, through his characters in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". Four couples are presented: Mel and Terri, Nick and Laura, Ed and Terri, and, most importantly, an unnamed elderly couple; each couple exhibits a variation on the word love.
Robert Nozick’s Love’s Bond is a clear summary of components, goals, challenges, and limitations of romantic love. Nozick gives a description of love as having your wellbeing linked with that of someone and something you love. I agree with ideas that Nozick has explained concerning the definition of love, but individuals have their meaning of love. Every individual has a remarkable thing that will bring happiness and contentment in their lives. While sometimes it is hard to practice unconditional love, couples should love unconditionally because it is a true love that is more than infatuation and overcomes minor character flaw.
A reader may ask, why are “her loves” important to the story that unfolds? Clearly, Pejsa discovered that to understand Gratia, one must understand the driving forces – the people she loved – that influenced and shaped her despite the social mores that defined marriage, love and the role of women during that era.
The market price of a good is determined by both the supply and demand for it. In the world today supply and demand is perhaps one of the most fundamental principles that exists for economics and the backbone of a market economy. Supply is represented by how much the market can offer. The quantity supplied refers to the amount of a certain good that producers are willing to supply for a certain demand price. What determines this interconnection is how much of a good or service is supplied to the market or otherwise known as the supply relationship or supply schedule which is graphically represented by the supply curve. In demand the schedule is depicted graphically as the demand curve which represents the amount of goods that buyers are willing and able to purchase at various prices, assuming all other non-price factors remain the same. The demand curve is almost always represented as downwards-sloping, meaning that as price decreases, consumers will buy more of the good. Just as the supply curves reflect marginal cost curves, demand curves can be described as marginal utility curves. The main determinants of individual demand are the price of the good, level of income, personal tastes, the population, government policies, the price of substitute goods, and the price of complementary goods.
..., a person who earns $25,000 is happier than a person who makes $125,000 and an employee who makes $500,000 is only slightly happier than someone who makes $55,000. Lastly, there are more important things in life that and make you happy, for example, friends. They don’t come with a price tag, and if they do, you definitely need new friends. Money won’t make you happy since good times can’t be bought. You don’t need a fancy vacation to have a good time; it’s just a matter of who you spend it with. Over the years, humans have blown the value of money way out of proportion. People make it seem like if you’re not filthy rich, then you won’t live a good life but it’s not true. You can lack money and yet still live a perfect, happy life.