Our early money education is often burdened with emotional baggage of fear, envy, shame and guilt. Here's a video that explores attitudes about money in order to gain a balanced understanding. Explore the nature of money, how money is confused with basic human needs, how money relates to happiness, the meaning of luxury fever, and the difference between being rich and being truly wealthy. Use in consumer education, career planning, family living, or personal finance classes.
Explore:
- What do your students believe about money and spending?
- How answers to the simple question, "What is money?" shape life choices.
- How money substitutes for security, love, power, and freedom.
- Why money is often confused for what it represents.
- Why we sometimes describe money as "the root of all evil."
- If money can't buy happiness, can we at least make a down payment?
- Do the wealthy create poverty by taking too much pie?
- What's the difference between being wealthy and having lots of money?
- The problems of status, staying ahead of the Joneses, and "luxury fever?"
