Essay On Brewster's Millions By Wealthy Brewster

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Brewster’s Millions is a film about a small time baseball player named Monty Brewster. Brewster can earn up to three hundred million dollars from his great uncle, but only if he competes a daunting task. He must spend thirty million dollars in thirty days without acquiring any assets, or he gets nothing. Along with not being allowed to retain any assets, there are a few more rules, he cannot tell a single person about his task, nor can he donate to much money to charity. Monty Brewster puts it all on the line, and attempts to get the three hundred million dollars. The concept of diminishing marginal utility could be used to perfectly describe the experience of Brewster throughout the movie. Utility is the level of happiness that one gets from possessing or purchasing a good or service. People will make the choice that gives them the most happiness, or in other words, the highest utility. Diminishing marginal utility is a law of economics stating that as a person increases consumption of a product, while keeping consumption of other products constant, there is a decline in the marginal utility that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product. This means that the more of one product that a person has in a set period of time,
Each year we go to the same place, and do the exact same things. Visit sponge docks in Tarpon Springs on thursday. Watch them build big sand castles on Tuesday. Although I love the time with my family, it can never be the same as our first trips with my Uncle Tom. Due to the law of diminishing marginal utility, I began getting less and less happiness out of each christmas vacation. My marginal utility has diminished to the point where I do not think going would make me any happier. I believe staying in town and being with my friends this year would help me to achieve the maximum utility over christmas

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