The Mentality of $$$

Harvard surprises me. First of all, I'm amazed by how I continue to meet so many wonderful people. At the same time there is something very wrong with this place... well, many things, but especially this: in my sociology 128 section we were talking about independent and dependent variables. Dependent variables will change and are affected by independent variables (they are dependent upon them). So we had this example, this drill: happiness is the dependent variable, what are possibilities for its independent variable - or, what is happiness dependent upon? Tell me WHY multiples peoples' first response was MONEY or WEALTH or INCOME?! Finally one girl said, her voice raising, question-lilted, "Having... good friends...?"

There is so much money in these red bricks that we are surrounded by and in this history that we live through every day.