Analysis Of Money Talks

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Secondary Source Integration “Money Talks” is a single episode of NPR’s Hidden Brain series and was published on November 28th, 2017. The episode consists of a discussion that takes place between the narrator, Shankar Vedantam and Neeru Paharia. The conversation involves the narrator and Neeru discussing the many ways we humans use money, and other status symbols to flaunt wealth, power, and our political views. Both the narrator and the guest are reliable and unbiased, the narrator is merely a host who seems well prepared for the topic, while the guest is a professor of marketing at Georgetown University. Among many other things, the discussion focuses on how there is an underlying motive of our every move to somehow display our status, and our political and ethical views. This can range from what type of coffee one decides to purchase or how a company decides to operate it’s factories. …show more content…

This is highlighted by the fact that the words status and money are used in tandem more than thirty times through the episode. The narrators insist that people will spend money on something more expensive despite there being no logical reasoning behind the purchase. “So then the question is why are people spending so much money on these shiny rocks that have no intrinsic value?” (NPR: Money Talks). This is part of a logos argument that is being made to the reader in the context in which this quote is found, Neeru is questioning the reasoning behind buying diamonds. The reader is supposed to question themselves here and see if they are buying things because of their intrinsic value, or what that purchase would show about their societal status. This is a very engrossing appeal to the audience to use their logical sense, and see if spending money on unnecessarily extravagant things actually makes any sense, when cheaper alternatives are readily

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