Money is possibly the most ubiquitous symbol of the late twentieth century.
We measure human worth in money, just as we measure the value of cars and cattle and stocks. Although money is symbolic, it has devastatingly real effects. And it's also the social glue which holds people together in categories known as classes. People in the lower classes work for people in the upper classes. The kind of work that people in the lower classes are forced to do is the topic of Sheen Brenkuss's article .