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4.2.2.1 The rise of money as a power
Money is a crucial thing, which served human life, treat human everything as they want to, and many more words to describe. But sometimes it makes people hurt
each other too, even makes a war. Money makes people cautious McCandless’s words in Into the Wild movie. It’s true, there are many crimes which is caused by
money. As Simmel conclude, money is not simply an economic but a sociological phenomenon. Simmel: The philosophy of money. Budapest, Gondolat Kiadó,
1973. In this novel, John McCandless protested that money can make people suffer. Here is datum 8;
Then, in a gesture that would have done both Thoreau and Tolstoy proud, he arranged all his paper currency in a pile on the sand—a pathetic little
stack of ones and fives and twenties—and put a match to it. One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and
smoke.
In this datum, he burn out his remains money into ash and smoke, then he did not bring any cent at all, because all of his money for his college had been donated to
OXFAM America, a charity dedicated to fighting hunger. He just wanted the money come into the right hand. Then by burning out his money, he just believes
that money can make people cautious, so he avoided bringing some money though he needed.
He also believe that money cannot buy someone’s respect, here is datum 9.
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or that they think I’d actually let them pay for my law school if I was going to go.... I’ve told them a million times that I have the best car in the world, a
car that has spanned the continent from Miami to Alaska, a car that has in all those thousands of miles not given me a single problem, a car that I will
never trade in, a car that I am very strongly attached to—yet they ignore what I say and think I’d actually accept a new car from them I’m going to
have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.
In this datum, McCandless complained to his sister, Carine, about his parent’s idea to buy him a new car. He strongly offended by this idea to his parents. He
thought his car is still in the best condition, he even thought that his parents measured everything by money in other word materialistic. He thought that gift
can buy his respect. That’s why he refused his parent wish to buy him a new car.
4.2.2.2 The rules that imprisoned human’s life
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