It is true that, in today’s society, people do view money as a bigger part of life. In a New York Times Article, a new study by researchers in organizational …show more content…
Morality, or the lack thereof, is the basis of every human interaction that we face and is one of the biggest things that drives all of us to do what we do. Money and morals are two very different things--one being a material object, and the other being a concept that people follow. You might be wondering, why does all of this matter? The answer is simple. This matters, because all of us in this room, whether you realize it or not, are following our own morals. For example, if you saw someone drop a $50, would you take it? Or would you tell them that they dropped it and return it to them? To society, the right thing to do would be to return it, because that's the moral thing to do. But if someone didn’t have the moral concept of the difference between right and wrong, they probably would take it. It is ultimately better for society if people choose morals over