Gatsby had a romantic view of wealth, however wealth had not prepared him for the self-interested, snobbish, corrupt group of people with which he comes to know and hang around. Fitzgerald shows us how a dream can become corrupted by one’s focus on acquiring wealth, power, and expensive things. He is so blinded by his luxurious possessions that he does not see that money cannot buy love or happiness. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a self-made man who started out with no money only a plan for achieving his dream. The desire of money is so strong that people will steal identities to get it. Money is also stolen online by viruses, hackers and fraudulent schemes. People will rob banks to achieve this, in 2010 over 6,065 banks were robbed in the US alone and over $43 million was looted. Now money is evolving again and changing from physical form which we can hold to electronic money like credit cards and online payments.Įven though you need money to live, people have often gone crazy to get more, for either standard living or just simply for enjoyment or luxury.
Money was not always paper and coins as we see it today, people had to trade and barter to get things. The over use of the credit cards is but one of the many reasons that our economy is in such a financial mess. Some of these problems come from a wrong lifestyle or greed for more things that one does not actually need. While greed and the love of money is an issue, the problem of money or the lack of it can effect many of us. Instead of having extra money with which to enjoy the American Dream, millions of families are now experiencing the American Nightmare of working hard, but never having quite enough. The price of food, gas, health insurance and other basic necessities has continued to escalate, but wages have not followed, so more Americans are finding themselves squeezed financially at the end of every month. However the idea of money is not entirely an American dream.
PINK FLOYD MONEY LYRICS FREE
Our society also focuses on get rich quick schemes, ways to get free things. Society even rates others on how much money they have, like the caste system, lower class equals little to no money, middle class means little to a lot of money, upper class means you’re rich.
People spend a great amount of their life trying to gain more money, whether it is investing their money, purchasing lottery tickets, spending it in casinos, working for it, or even stealing it. The song says money is a crime and share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie, which means the American nightmare is the American dream. The American Dream as I see it, is where people get so much money and keep it for themselves, but the American nightmare is where people get robbed, fighting over money and killing themselves and other people to get money. Everyone sees money as a goal and sometimes a scheme. Money is also a societal vision of the American Dream because everyone wants more money. Because money is paper and we hold it and spend every day I consider that realistic. The way I define realism is true and factual. Included on ‘The Later Years’, a 18-disc box set (5xCDs, 6xBlu-Rays, 5xDVDs,2x7”) covering the material created by David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright from 1987 onwards, with unreleased audio and audiovisual material, including the 1989 Venice and 1990 Knebworth concerts, as well as updated, restored and remixed audio and video, 2 x 7” singles, 60-page hardback Photo Book, 40-page hardback Credits Book, Lyrics Book, 3 x reproduction tour programmes, card envelope containing collectible memorabilia, plus Blu-rays and DVDs in individual wallets.The song Money by Pink Floyd is an example of the realistic, personal, individual, and societal vision of the American Dream and Nightmare. + Each ‘Year’ CD, DVD & Blu-Ray package includes Photo Book & Memorabilia + Featuring Rare Tracks, Demos, Interviews, and Film Footage + 6 Individual Volumes available as Multi-disc Book-bound packages The album was re-mastered in 2011 and Discovery (1CD), Experience (2CD), Immersion (6CD) and vinyl editions are currently One of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed albums of all time, The Dark Side of The Moon also introduced the iconic album cover artwork by Hipgnosis, after a request for a 'simple and bold' design. Originally released in 1973, 'The Dark Side of The Moon' became Pink Floyd's first number 1 album in the US, remaining on the chart for 741 weeks between 1973 and The official promo video for 'Money' by Pink Floyd, taken from the album 'The Dark Side Of The Moon'
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