"loaded onto the card, funds are used from other currencies. Mastercard's current advertising campaign tagline is """"Priceless"""". The slogan associated with the campaign is ""There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mastercard."" The Priceless campaign in more recent iterations has been applicable to both Mastercard's credit card and debit card products. They also use the ""Priceless"" description to promote products such as their ""priceless travel"" site which features deals and offers for Mastercard holders, and ""priceless cities"", offers for people in specified locations. The first of these ""Priceless"" ads was run during the 1997 World Series"
"and other good things too many to catalogue"". Money when used with sense leads to generosity and charity, while money used in folly leads to a common expense for the whole society—excessive hoarding of money for one's children is avarice. While making money is not useless, he says, doing so as a result of wrongdoing is the ""worst of all things"". He is on the whole ambivalent towards wealth, and values it much less than self-sufficiency. He disliked violence but was not a pacifist: he urged cities to be prepared for war, and believed that a society had the right"
"patience, or even love, for the poor. He opined:The fact to the matter is, I'm not proud of it and it's not the best solution but it is what it is, our society today is based on a monetary economy. That means that if you want to acquire something, you have to pay for it. Like I said, it's not the best solution but there's no escaping it. And I'm terribly sorry to have to say this, but the fact that we have poor people even in this kind of society means something. It means that those people must not"
"that is not one's heart, because no emotional stability will be lost. This quote “Give crowns and pounds and guineas away...give pearls away and rubies” (Housman, 3-5) helps to explain how money doesn’t buy happiness, and this is inferring that money can buy things that allow the heart to pursue happiness, “The advice to ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas [away]’ contradicts common knowledge, which dictates that acquiring wealth gives a person the means with which to pursue happiness” (Grimes). This is because giving away money and jewels does not affect your freedom. Giving your heart away, however, does take"
"for his time. He wrote that because it is impossible to determine the value of every good through a count of the number of other goods it is worth, the necessity arises of a single universal standard of measurement. Money thus allows for the association of different goods and makes them ""commensurable"". He goes to on state that money is also useful for future exchange, making it a sort of security. That is, ""if we do not want a thing now, we shall be able to get it when we do want it"". Aristotle's ""Rhetoric"" proposes that a speaker can"
"him his money. Give me money, the young man will say, and I will be all right."" But Kierkegaard thinks this emphasis on money leads to a denial of the gifts of the spirit to those who are poor and in misery. Below are three quotes concerning Kierkegaard's idea of abstraction which cannot be thought about without thinking about concretion. He moves from the world historical, the general, to the single individual, the specific. The first from the esthete and the second from the ethicist in ""Either/Or"" and the third from the book that explained all his previous works; ""Concluding"
"and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it (""Wealth of Nations"" Book 1, chapter IV). Value ""in exchange"" is the relative proportion with which this commodity exchanges for another commodity (in other words, its price in the case of money)."
"then there is the odd comment that just like sinks your soul."" On money, he said: ""Money is the weirdest thing ... That's kinda the only thing that changed in my life drastically, but the way people treat you because of it, and they think you are going to change because of it, and they treat you differently, inevitably you change your opinion to them because they are treating you differently. It's a really weird thing. I try to stay exactly the same as I was before."" The line ""but I hope that Damien's proud"" is a reference to Damien"
"the message is the coveting and striving of greed for something on earth is the sin the Jews and Christians define, where money could be exchanged with anything else on the earth eg power. The opposite of greed is charity, each of the Seven deadly sins has a counterpart in the Seven virtues. Augustine defines love of money as a subcategory of avarice. Luther referred to the love of money in strong accusations against the Catholic Church in his initial work of the ""Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences."" He saw the selling of an indulgence by"
"specific social or economic relationship among people is expressed or symbolized. In the process of circulation, production, distribution, and consumption, value metamorphoses from one form to another. Different forms of value – currencies, commodities and capitals – all trade for each other, where buyers and sellers convert money into goods, and goods into money, or convert one type of capital asset into another type of capital asset, in markets where prices fluctuate all the time. According to Marx, the individual acts of exchange in themselves cannot alter the underlying ""value"" of goods and assets, at least not in the ordinary"
"the great decreases thereof which have happened within these Twenty years"" and that higher velocity is the answer. He also mentions that there is nothing unique about gold and silver in fulfilling the functions of money and that money is the means to an end, not the end itself: Nor were it hard to substitute in the place of Money [gold and silver] (were a comptency of it wanting) what should be equivalent unto it. For Money is but the Fat of the Body-Politick, whereof too much doth often hinder its agility, as too little makes it sick... so doth"
"upon people by wage-labor & private property. Namely, for instance, don't work & don't pay rent. In the purist spirit of Charles Fourier's - Some Advice Concerning the Next Social Metamorphosis: ""Never sacrifice a present good to a future good. Enjoy the moment; don't get into anything which doesn't satisfy your passions right away. Why should you work today for jam tomorrow, since you will be loaded down with it anyway, & in fact in the new order you will only have one problem, namely how to find enough time to get through all the pleasures in store for you."""
"it contains rich truths, and an abundance of them; comparable to gold, silver, and precious stones, for the price of them, their antiquity, distance of place from whence they come, and their duration; because it has in it rich blessings, spiritual ones, the blessings of the new covenant, solid, substantial, and irreversible ones, and a fulness of them; and because it consists of exceeding great and precious promises, of more worth than thousands of gold and silver; free, absolute, and unconditional ones, which are yea and amen in Christ, and relate both to this, and the other world; and also"
"aid and protection."" Otley's previous gifts include hosting feasts and financing wars, and his gift to Lacy is in a similar vein. This demonstrates that the Lord Mayor believes that ""emotions can be purchased or compensated in a commercial exchange,"". The second attempt to exchange money for love comes in Act 5 Scene 2 and highlights a status distinction. Hammon attempts to pay Ralph 20 pounds in order to claim Jane for himself. Hammon, like Otley, operates under the assumption that money can buy anything, even love, and approaches Jane not as a person but as a commodity. This can"
"is great, that it seems like folly. As for things that do not seem like folly — well, there can be no question about ""their"" smallness!<br> Here are my three treasures. Guard and keep them! The first is pity; the second, frugality; the third, refusal to be 'foremost of all things under heaven'. <br> For only he that pities is truly able to be brave; <br> Only he that is frugal is able to be profuse. <br> Only he that refuses to be foremost of all things <br> Is truly able to become chief of all Ministers. <br> At present"
"away with (literally) murder; while those with new money, represented by Gatsby himself, are alternately embraced and scorned by other characters in the book. Fitzgerald vastly critiques people in possession of old money through his narrator Nick Carraway: ""“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”"" Old money Old money is ""the inherited wealth of established upper-class families (i.e. gentry, patriciate)"" or ""a person, family,"
"buy it even for a lot of money. The sun also shines for free, and has for so long, and the sweet scent of roses is brought to me free by the complimentary summer breeze."" "" One shouldn't take too seriously women, the kisses, the trains, the cities, the people, this whole great everything, life. Pay attention, because it is a colorful, interesting and spectacular play. What matters never changes. All of it is an adventure, there is no beginning and no end. There are only stations. We are running, panting, chasing happiness, but we can't catch up with it."""
"meaning because Thomas 95 says: Jesus said: ""If you have money, do not lend it out at interest."" He has argued that Jesus died to bring salvation for mankind in this world, rather than in an afterlife.) He has composed several poems outlining his beliefs, all of which are written in doggerel verse. The following example is typical: <poem> Debt Cancellation, ""Tobin tax,"" they're splashing in the pool, The problem's in the money pumphouse. ""Interest"" the tool. The vast solution takes all errant money-pumps in hand, It's not a half-vast splashing in the money pool that's planned. Relief could reach"
"materialistic. At this time in America money and power was causing constant struggle for those of the working class. In Altruria, money is not a problem because there is not any. Every man is equal. Every man works. It seems to be a good way of life, however, it does not seem very realistic. As Mrs. Makely says, ""There must be rich and there must be poor. There always have been, and there always will be"" [149–150]. Howells method to fix that thought is the Altrurian system where everyone is guaranteed a share of the national product only if he"
"home from work, in the evening hours, and especially during the weekends. During this time, he prescribed improvement measures such as reading great literature, taking an interest in the arts, reflecting on life, and learning self-discipline. Bennett wrote that time is the most precious of commodities. He said that many books have been written on how to live on a certain amount of money each day. And he added that the old adage ""time is money"" understates the matter, as time can often produce money, but money cannot produce more time. Time is extremely limited, and Bennett urged others to"
"from God, complaining, finding faults in others, unable to bear pains and sorrows of life, love for material world instead of the Self within, corruption, fraud, larceny and swindling, bribery, cheating, lying, plundering, stealing, fond of mental speculations and material logic, attachment to material world, deceitful nature, fearful, unceasing desire for sense objects, cynicism, hypocrisy, always wanting to control the world, always wanting to be appreciated, unceasing hunger for name and fame, love for titles and honor, divisiveness, prejudices, cruelty, bigotry, unnatural diet, indulgence in worldly pleasures, illusion, delusion, wrong identity, stupor, obstinate error, love of Maya or worldliness, crookedness,"
"to money economies which commodify our relationships and renders people interchangeable. He asserts that money is created by the conversion of free human interactions into paid services. Eisenstein himself attempts to practice the gift economy in his own life. The book explores additional economic proposals including a negative-interest currency following Silvio Gesell, social dividends, economic degrowth, and a personal emphasis on right livelihood over financial motivation. In other writings, he has also advocated for universal basic income. He describes and rejects what he describes as the myth of scarcity which he claims fosters greed and anxiety. The book is optimistic,"
"gold"". To Bradstreet, her husband's love is worth more than some of the best treasures that this earth has to offer. She also makes it a point to show to her husband that nothing can fill the love that she has for her husband. The lines, ""My love is such that rivers cannot quench,"" the rivers represent death, which she says the fire of her love is invulnerable to. The last line of the poem sums this up with the words, ""Then when we live no more, we may live ever."" In ""A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public"
"who takes.” Once he has had, it is his. Men also have the power of money. In the hands of women, money buys things, it stays literal. Money in the hands of a woman is sometimes evidence of something foul: unwomanly ambition and greed. For men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, loyalty, and all manner of possibility; it brings qualities, achievements, and respect. Money in the hands of a man signifies worth and accomplishment. Wealth of any kind is an expression of male sexual power. Lastly, Dworkin suggests that men have the power of sex although they assert"
"West on birthdays for example. Rather, these gifts can't be re-sold for money by the receiver because the value and the significance of the gift cannot be alienated or disengaged from its relationship to those whose inalienable possession it is. These inalienable possessions are a form of property that is inalienable, yet they can be exchanged. Property can be thought of as a bundle of rights – the right to use something, the right to collect rent from someone, the right to extract something (as in oil drilling), the right to hunt within a particular territory. That ownership may be"
"Other things, such as most objects, may or may not be possessed. When such types of objects are possessed, the possession is alienable. Alienable possession is used generally for tangible items that one might cease to own at some point (such as ""my money""), but inalienable possession generally refers to a perpetual relationship that cannot be readily severed (such as ""my mother""). Although the relationships listed above are likely to be instances of inalienable possession, what is ultimately classified as inalienable depends on conventions, specific to the language and the culture. It is impossible to say that a particular relationship"
"his property. Aparaka ma tibi agobi / Eka eyo du aparakasi, mi isu afazi ku (Unseriousness feeds on pumpkin leaves/ If you take things jokingly, you don't get anything): Unseriousness misses out on the good things! Ata abu-a ri, le mima nga azi raka mima nya ndo (Even in the valley plantation, you must first work before you eat): No work, no food! Awoko so ti andre (Anger pierced the cow's tongue): Don't get angry or else you will get hurt! Ayia ma ndu yo (There is no other mother): Cherish your mother, there is no other woman who can"
"diminish in his hands. Nor is he less anxious to dispose of the money he may get for it; for the value of money is also perishable. But the only way of getting rid of money is in the purchase of some product or other. Thus the mere circumstance of creation of one product immediately opens a vent for other products. Say further argued that because production necessarily creates demand, a ""general glut"" of unsold goods of all kinds is impossible. If there is an excess supply of one good, there must be a shortage of another: ""The superabundance of"
"body You make me cold You run my life right outta my soul<br> Oh Death please consider my age Please don't take me at this stage My wealth is all at your command If you will move your icy hand The old, the young, the rich or poor All alike to me you know No wealth, no land, no silver no gold Nothing satisfies me but your soul O, Death O, Death Won't you spare me over til another year Won't you spare me over til another year Won't you spare me over til another year </poem> O Death O"
"based or not, needs to take if they are to aid the poor. You must not look at just the surface but on the inside as well. Looks can be deceiving and if you don’t consider every aspect of the human being then you will be doing more harm than good. Poverty isn’t just a lack of material things but also a lack of what makes a person human. Pride. Self-esteem. Courage. Happiness. These are things that money can’t buy and that money cannot give you(Corbett & Fikkert pg.51 & 52). Reception for ""When Helping Hurts"" has been positive, with"
"only reason to have money is to buy products. It would not be a mistake, in his view, to treat the economy ""as if"" it were a barter economy. To quote Say: Nor is [an individual] less anxious to dispose of the money he may get ... But the only way of getting rid of money is in the purchase of some product or other. In Keynesian terms, followers of Say's law would argue that on the aggregate level, there is only a transactions demand for money. That is, there is no precautionary, finance, or speculative demand for money. Money"
"agencies. Traditionally, the purchasing power of money depended heavily upon the local value of gold and silver, but was also made subject to the availability and demand of certain goods on the market. Most modern fiat currencies like US dollars are traded against each other and commodity money in the secondary market for the purpose of international transfer of payment for goods and services. As Adam Smith noted, having money gives one the ability to ""command"" others' labor, so purchasing power to some extent is power over other people, to the extent that they are willing to trade their labor"
"""It is impossible to conclude, of any given mass of acquired wealth, merely by the fact of its existence, whether it signifies good or evil to the nation in the midst of which it exists. Its real value depends on the moral sign attached to it, just as strictly as that of a mathematical quantity depends on the algebraic sign attached to it. Any given accumulation of commercial wealth may be indicative, on the one hand, of faithful industries, progressive energies, and productive ingenuities: or, on the other, it may be indicative of mortal luxury, merciless tyranny, ruinous chicanery."" Gandhi"