What money can't buy

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When the primitive starts to trade a shell for a shiny rock, they do not realize that that shell is the rudiment of modern currency and that shiny rock is called diamond, which is one of the expensive merchandise nowadays. When people find that trading makes people better off, the machines of commercial world switch on its engine and lead us into a modern market, where filled with ceaseless trading of commodity and endless chasing for money. With the speedy development of human society, people begin to raise a concern on the truly value of money or, as Michael Sandel says in his book, the worry on the development of society when everything seems can be up for sale. What money can buy and what money cannot buy? Can we really buy anything we want using money?
After reading the article written by Sandel, what surprises me is the service of surrogate mother in India, which sounds uncommon. However, as Hegel says, “what exists is reasonable”, the service must have some great advantages that attract “buyer” and “seller”. Indeed, couples finding a surrogate mother for their future babies spare many times, energy, or even money for the family. They can have more time to work, and additionally, the baby’s mother do not have to suffer from the pain when give birth. Money can buy convenience and efficiency. Who don’t want this benefit if he or she is able to afford?
However, we know that Sandel holds the belief that the greedy market society is need to be regulated for two reasons---the first is inequality, and the second is about corruption. When we consider the aspect on inequality, it is not hard to understand that when the rich get richer, they can buy more goods they want and dominates the market portion largely, and the poor people ge...

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...feel frustrated when they heard that they are going to be fired in the movie Margin Call. I do not think fired by boss is a depressive thing because it provides you a valued chance to make a move or to make a change to decide the next step of your rest of life. It is all in your controlled. You can live with little money but with great peaceful satisfaction. Or you choose to continue working for the next investment company. It’s all up to yourselves, but you should never forget that do not let the wealth strangle you. Let’s go back to see the assumption about the doctor’s dilemma, I think no matter how the doctor make the decision, he will be criticized and judged anyway at last because choosing either patient is wrong, which means giving up on the other one. So, what we have to do is follow the inner peace of our heart and try best to maximum the benefits for all.

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