Money in sentence

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Those convicted of murder were condemned to die in prison, and it was during those meetings with those men that I couldn't fathom why we would spend so much money to keep this one person in jail for the next 80 years when we could have reinvested it up front, and perhaps prevented the whole thing from happening in the first place.

Why are we spending 80 billion dollars on a prison industry that we know is failing, when we could take that money and reallocate it into education, into mental health treatment, into substance abuse treatment and to community investment so we can develop our neighborhoods?

Well, one, we're spending a lot of money.

How good are you at managing money?

We earned more money, we engaged more volunteers and we earned more votes than any political campaign in history.

Now at this point, the agency responsible, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, could have kept pouring money into the failing program.

Personally, as a scientist, my money is on the natural explanation.

It's just been industrial, which means those who were producing had to have a way of raising money to pay those two and a half million dollars, and later, more for the telegraph, and the radio transmitter, and the television, and eventually the mainframe.

Yes, we could do a lot of good with the money it will take to establish a thriving colony on Mars.

And when I was 12 and in my first year of high school, I started raising money for communities in the developing world.

We were a really enthusiastic group of kids, and we raised more money than any other school in Australia.

See, there was a change in government, and six years later, all that new money disappeared.

[The Panama Papers exposed rich and powerful people] [hiding vast amounts of money in offshore accounts.]

There's been allegations of a $2 billion money trail that leads back to President Vladimir Putin of Russia via his close childhood friend, who happens to be a top cellist.

But the truth is that if rich and powerful individuals are able to keep their money offshore and not pay the taxes that they should, it means that there is less money for vital public services like healthcare, education, roads.

These were all preliminary meetings, and none of the lawyers took us on as a client and of course no money moved hands, but it really shows the problem with the system.

Together, we can end the secrecy that is currently allowing tax evasion, corruption, money laundering to flourish.

(Laughter and applause) (Drums) (Cello) Hey! (Looped samples of onstage sounds) (Cello music and looped samples) (Music ends) (Applause and cheers) I recently completed an unsanctioned, unsupervised psychological experiment on my children, (Laughter) the premise of which was $10,000 in cash on the kitchen table and a sign next to it that said 'Don't touch the money yet!', and before I dive into it, you should know that we are a game-playing family.

So they were doing things like buying each other out of jail and lending each other money to buy properties, and I found myself going, 'Guys, this is not how this game is played!' to which they'd say, 'Dad, it's fine!

We just want her on the board with us', or, 'He can pay me back at the end of the game, when he's flush with cash', and I'm thinking again, 'What am I teaching these kids?' So, I started watching how they were playing - listening to their banter, getting a feel for how they were making decisions - and I had this thought: 'What if they're playing this way because the money isn't real?' It's a concept I've been reading a lot about, lately, 'Financial abstraction', the notion that when money becomes more and more of an idea, less tangible and therefore more abstract, it changes the way we interact with it on a regular basis, and there's anecdotal evidence of abstraction everywhere around us.

Lastly, I had a conversation with some teenagers who told me that $100,000 a year really wasn't that much money.

So as I'm playing with my kids and I'm watching them play, listening to them talk, I thought, 'What if the money were real on the table?

And so I calculated quickly on the box, 'How much would it take in capital, in currency, to play a physical game of Monopoly with my kids so that they actually tangibly got to feel the money in their hands?'

In effect, having real money on the table and a cash prize at the end made him more conservative.

In the confines of my experiment, there is an idea worth spreading, and it is this: I believe kids today are being raised in a world where money is no longer real; it's actually an illusion, but it has very real consequences.

Peter Drucker, famed leadership guru, said banking and finance industries today are less about money and more about information, and yet young people today don't get that information; they don't get the experiences of money, early on.

It's estimated there are trillions of dollars circling the globe in our global economy every single day, yet only four percent of that money is actually in coin or currency.

But what snapped me back to reality was hearing my son behind me say, 'I sure wish I had a phone so I could buy stuff.' (Laughter) You see, money, to a young person, is somewhat abstract, anyway, and when we further the abstraction by waving a MagicBand or putting our phone over a sensor and giving the thumbprint, all it does is further the abstraction.

It's a recipe for financial disaster later in life to the uneducated because, to a young person, they see money as limitless because they have no concept of the backend until it comes around to bite them in the back end.

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