There is no missing dollar. The ladies lunch costs 25 dollars and the waiter pocketed 2 which equals 27, the same as if each ladies gave 9 instead of 10. He then gives each ladies back a dollars each, coming to the total amount of 30.
Author: jsoccer5
Stone Money Rewrite- jsoccer5
Money is Truly Fictional
Money is something that is involved in all aspects of life around the world. What does a new mother in France trying to get formula for her baby have in common with a young man fresh out of college in the US in search of a suit for an interview? Well the answer is they are both in need of money, because everything out there cost money. Even though each country uses a different type of currency, they all still use a form of money to be able to live their everyday life in society. What really makes each type of currency different though is how exactly each economy values the money they have and in what way they use this currency to trade.
The island of Yap is a great example of how their form of currency is not only limestone rocks but may also never be in their physical posession. Yap does not value direct ownership of money in their hand to know that they are wealthy, yet they value the idea of ownership even when it is not their direct possession. For some that may seem very odd, the idea that I own this stone that is worth so much but I may never actually have it in my hands or may not even see it. While this seems very far fetch to some it is not much different from what we do here in America with bank account and dirrect deposit or what Brazil does with URVs.
As they talked about in the NPR broadcast this is really not much different from what we do here in the United States. When we get paid from our jobs and it is deposited directly into our accounts. We see that we have this money digitally but we never actually physically possess this money. Then we pay a bill from our account and now that company has that money yet no one has ever physically held this money in their hands, which really means it may not actually exist. This just proves that what we do here in the United States is not all that much different from what the people of Yap did, just their basis of ownership is based on trust and is not done electronically.
This is also similar to the Brazilian currency of URVs. URVs was a fake currency designed to help the economy grow and the value of something be consistent. All of this was done virtually creating a sense that there was money even when nothing physically was being traded, it was all just numbers on a screen. This also helped the Brazilian economy realized the worth of certain things and helped their economy flourish instead of becoming more and more in debt.
The way people trade and value their money is something that is all very abstract and obscure but is not different from a child who trades and values a trading card. We view money in the same way a young child values their Pokemon Cards, where one child values a Pikachu more than the other child who values their Charmander. In a sense it’s viewed the same way that the way one person values a stone can be the same way another values a dollar, or the way someone else values gold locked in a box three thousand miles away. Money is really just fictional and is only worth whatever the person viewing it perceives and values it.
Work Cited
Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University , 1991.
Joffe-Walt, Chana . “How Fake Money Saved Brazil.” NPR.org. 4 Oct. 2010. 30 Jan. 2015. <http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil>.
“The Invention of Stone Money.” 423: The Invention of Stone Money. This Is American Life, WBEZ. Chicago . 7 Jan. 2011.
Summaries- jsoccer5
It seems counterintuitive that dress codes are causing children to get bullied, since the point of the dress code is to make everyone look the same to protect students from being picked on, however that is exactly what is happening nationwide.
In many schools across the country school dress codes are being enforced. Students are required to wear basically a uniform and whenever out of uniform they are picked on and punished. In a school where students are require dot wear navy slacks and a white collared shirt or a navy jumper with a white shirt underneath, if a student even remotely breaks this they are punished and caused to stand out in a negative way. Not only does this cause an issue with the teacher and student but now is giving fellow class mates a reason to pick on the student.
Dress codes are no longer implemented to protect students, yet they are causing more of an issue and seem to just be a sense of control on the schools part.
Store Bought Herbal Supplements are not what they say they are
It seems counterintuitive that herbal supplements sold in stores are filled with things, that are not on the label and really have no national value. Herbal supplements are sold nationwide and millions take them to improve their overall health.
In an investigation conducted by the government they found that in 4 large chain stores their store band herbal supplements did not have any traces of these vitamins that were said to be in the bottle. Upon further investigation they found many fillers such as sand and powdered rice filling these supplements, giving them no nutritional value at all.
It is counterintuitive for organic products to be labeled organic of they are not actually, however this is exactly what is happening. For food to be labeled made with organic ingredients if less than 70% of the ingredients are actually organic. The label of just organic is used if 95% of the ingredients are produced organically and the only time the buyer will get 100% organic product is if it says 100% organic.
Moving Image- jsoccer5
Keep your EYES on the Road
[0:00] The opening sense is a young boy getting into the driver seat of an older car. The boy is wearing a a dark blue t-shirt and jeans. He is Caucasian and has short dark hair. He looks clean and well kept. When getting into this older car, something similar to an 1989 ford Lincoln, he has his cell phone in his hand it and looks as if he is texting someone. His cell phone looks to be some type of smart phone.
[0:01- 0:03] The boy takes his right hand and reaches across his body for the buckle and buckles himself. This entire time he does not take his eyes off his phone, which is in his left hand.
[0:04-0:05] The boy is now adjusting the rear view mirror with his right hand but never looks up from his phone which continues to be in his left hand to see where he is adjusting the mirror. He moves the mirror about twice.
[0:06-0:07] the boy now takes his right hand and reaches for the keys which are in the ignition and starts the car turning the keys forward. He continues to look only at his phone in his left hand.
[0:08-0:09] The boy reaches up for the shifter which is places behind the steering wheel on the right side. He pulls it down and puts the car into gear. He continues to look at the phone in his left hand the entire time.
[0:10] The boys right hand now transitions onto the top of the steering wheel and he lends back into a comfortable position while still viewing his phone.
[0:11] The still image of the boy in the car in a laid back position with his right hand on the top of the steering wheel and his head slanted downwards towards his phone in his left hand fades slowly to the background. Big red letters that spell the word STOP in all capital letters appear across the screen.
[0:12-0:14] An image of an iguana appears the screen. The iguana’s eyes are moving all around looking in multiple different directions . The words Can you do this? Appear along the bottom of the screen in white.
[0:15-0:16] the camera goes back to the boy in the car but is now zoomed in on the boy’s face. The camera shows from his chest up. The phone is now in his right hand held up higher in front of his face. His left hand is on the steering wheel. He is attempting to move his eyes around the same way the iguana was from the previous screen. The boy has a strange smirk on his face but also expresses a sense of confusion.
[0:17] the screen is the same as the prior one except for the word No? in white appears on the bottom of the screen.
[0:18] The boy now looks completely away from his phone and shrugs his shoulders. The grin is still on his face and the word No? is still on the screen. He also now turns his head to face the camera on the right side of his body.
[0:19] The camera slowly fades out showing the majority of the car and the boy through the passenger side window. The boy takes the phone which is in his right hand and tosses it up and it lands in the passenger seat. He then looks forward as if he is about to drive.
[0:20] the car drives out of the screen from the left to right.
[0:21] the screen now shows a picture of the woods with a short wooden fence along the side of the road appears and the words Then DON’T text and drive. Appear in the front of the screen. The letter are in white and the only letters in capital are DON’T and the T in then.
[0:22] The screen fades to black.
[0:23- 0:26] the words Keep both EYEs on the road. Appear on the black screen. They are in a blueish, greenish colored collage fading from one to the other. The word EYES is in all caps.
[0:27-0:29] the screen now transitions into the same black screen with yellow dash marks going through the bottom of the screen. It makes it look almost like a road. In the middle of the screen “STOPTEXTSSTOPWRECKS.ORG” appears. The letters are all in caps and STOP is in yellow while the rest is in white. On the left side of the dash marks the words project yellow light area with a traffic sign and below that Ad councils symbol appears. On the right side of the dash marks appears NOYS in blue and under that is NHTSA with a symbol along that in the beginning.
Stone Money- jsoccer5
The fictional aspects of Money
Money is something that is involved in all aspects of life around the world. Even though each country uses a different type of currency, they all still use a form of money to be able to live their everyday life in society. What really makes each type of currency different though is how exactly each economy values the money they have and in what way they use this currency to trade.
The island of Yap is a great example of how there is an economy based on money but they do not value physically holding their money yet still having possession. Yap does not value direct ownership of money in their hand to know that they are wealthy, yet they value the idea of ownership even when it is not their direct possession. For some that may seem very odd, the idea that I own this stone that is worth so much but I may never actually have it in my hands or may not even see it. While this seems very far fetch to some it is not much different from what we do here in America or Brazil does when it comes to URVs.
As they talked about in the NPR broadcast this is really not much different from what we do here in the United States. When we get paid from our jobs and it is deposited directly into our accounts. We see that we have this money digitally but we never actually physically possess this money. Then we pay a bill from our account and now that company has that money yet no one has ever physically held this money. This just proves that what we do here in the United States is not all that much different from what the people of Yap did, just theirs was not done electronically.
This is also similar to the Brazilian currency of URVs. URVs was a fake currency designed to help the economy grow and the value of something be consistent. All of this was done virtually creating a sense that there was money even when nothing physically was being traded, it was all just numbers on a screen. This also helped the Brazilian economy realized the worth of certain things and helped their economy flourish instead of becoming more and more in debt.
The way people trade and value their money is something that is all very abstract and obscure, in a sense that the way one person views a stone can be the same way another values a dollar, which is simply just paper, or the way someone else values gold locked in a box three thousand miles away. Money is really just fictional and is only worth whatever the person viewing it perceives it.
Work Cited
Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University , 1991.
Joffe-Walt, Chana . “How Fake Money Saved Brazil.” NPR.org. 4 Oct. 2010. 30 Jan. 2015. <http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil>.
“The Invention of Stone Money.” 423: The Invention of Stone Money. This Is American Life, WBEZ. Chicago . 7 Jan. 2011.
Rowan Counterintuitive 