When Money Becomes Everything
When Money Becomes Everything Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute,In the 1964 film The Pawnbroker, Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Holocaust survivor who operates a pawnshop in Harlem. In one memorable scene, his young assistant asks him what he believes in. "Money," he answers. Money has extraordinary powers. It can buy comfort, luxury, relief from pain, sometimes even life itself. Then he adds, his anger driving him:Now you listen to me and listen very carefully. Next to the speed of light which Einstein says is the only absolute in the universe, second only to t