How People Give The Value Of Money And When It Changes

Money, a powerful tool made by the modern society, which probably created a new and revolutionary world, but how often people made nonsense and incoherent acts. just to gain more money, just for the reason that the psychology of the human nature is really complex, that sometimes humans do not really think about the acts they commit and how those acts can really impact in their life, that’s why in the short story “the bet” you can really see how money can impact humans life. At first the two main characters involve which are the banker and the young lawyer. The banker who immediately threw away a loan of 2 million dollars that was like buying a candy to a child, and in the other side is the young lawyer that in the same way as the banker he threw away years of valuable life instead of money just to get… Money. So, in the following essay I would be taking on how humans give the value of money and when humans change the value of money, what does those changes tell us and why humans tend to change it.

All of this takes us to the XIX century in Russia where there was a party of various kind of people where they were having a conversation of what kind of punishment was worst or more moral, they were debating about death penalty vs. imprisonment for life, that’s when our main characters intervene, the young lawyer that prefers being imprisonment for life than death penalty because living is better anyhow, that’s when the banker confronts de young lawyer, saying that his argument is not true, and to prove it he bets him 2 million dollars if he can spend 5 years in solitary confinement and the lawyer respond to him accepting his bet but not spending 5 years instead spending 15 years of his life; starting the story we have really clear on how this individuals value money, the banker obviously doesn’t care about losing a couple of million dollars that leads us to a thing called getting high on money that tell us that “the brain scans of people about to make money are almost identical to those of drug addicts high on cocaine”, in this case is a little different because in this situation the power of having money is giving the character the possibility to observe how people will spend their time in a non-sense bet just because to them money is ultra-valuable that they want it anyhow, in this case the person who wanted the money was the young lawyer that had the option of declined it or just take the bet spending 5 years in solitary confinement, but you know how people say “go bigger or go home”, so just to prove him that he is capable of defending his point of view about imprisonment for life he raised up the years to 15 years.

At this point we can see two personalities colliding each other, one who is a banker that probably all his life was about handling money and accumulating wealth that probably his life overall sucks because we can assume that over the years his happiness and moral level had been going down so that’s probably why he commit to make such nonsense bet, in the other side is the young lawyer that we can assume that his life has been all about treating with peoples problem in a juridical way and he maybe has experienced how people behave when they got they sentence or their freedom that’s why we can have a little idea why he accept such bet and even make it harder for himself to completed, also completing the bet would be leading to life changes for both of our characters.

Then when the story hits its top point is just a masterpiece of a lesson that every human should considered about, don’t worry I would put you in context. At first glance the lawyer that is in solitary confinement the only things that he can got were wine, cigarettes, books, instruments to play music and of course food, but all of that was given through a little window that make him incapable to see someone or having some sort of contact. From the first to the fourth year the lawyer was suffering from loneliness and depression, sometimes you could hear that the piano was been playing by him, because you know there was not Netflix does times around in Russia also he spend a lot of time writing letters, notes and a different kind of texts.

But when it really begin the real plot it was around the sixth year when he asked for 600 volumes of books, at first glance you may think why a person should be asking for 600 volumes of books, well the answer is very simple; Entertainment, all he can really do in order to not become crazy is to entertain himself because he was really not having any life productivity at the time, so he began reading those books and starting to see the beauty of those books, but in this case those books made a life changer to him, first he learned 6 languages and to prove it he wrote a letter written in those six languages that later was checked by native speakers of the language just to make sure that was correct, indeed was correct, then from the eighth year to almost the fifteenth year.