Road to a Championship Ticket
A return flight from New York to Tokyo in 1952 cost roughly $1,200. The inflation adjustment brings the total value…
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Redundancy Package
The first thing Man-su loses after his job is the Netflix subscription. The film No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook…
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The Economy of Staying Alive
A pack of cigarettes. The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho shows how money enables someone to survive a police…
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Opportunity Cost of Genius
The first part of Hamnet shows Agnes Hathaway searching for medicinal plants in the Warwickshire forest while she carries her…
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The Price of Believing You’re Owed Something
Someone shared with me that conspiracy theories function as economic systems which people use when they fail to track financial…
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Cost of Being Revolutionary When Revolution Pays Nothing
The forty-second money discussion appears in "Nouvelle Vague" between the characters. Jean-Luc Godard's producer is running through numbers, and the…
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The Going Rate for Genius
There's a moment early in Blue Moon when Lorenz Hart orders another drink at Sardi's and you watch the bartender's…
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Labour of Remembering: Who Pays When the State Won’t
The mechanic identifies the familiar squeaking noise which he has encountered multiple times. Prosthetic leg, specific gait, voice on the…
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The Revolution Has a Budget Problem
Somewhere around the third bank heist in Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling One Battle After Another, I found myself wondering who…
