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Interview Questions

  • On a scale of 1 to 10 how much would you say money affects your every day life?

  • Do you believe money has a positive or a negative impact on today’s society?

  • Can you imagine a world without money? If so what is it like?

  • If there is one thing you have to say about the way money impacts your life, what would it be?

  • How do you gage success? With money or with happiness? Should money define success?

  • How do you believe money will continue to impact society?

  • Do you believe money has control over us?

  • Do you believe money can have a psychological affect on a person?

  • Do you believe the influence money has on today’s society should be less or more than it is now?

  • Has the influence of money in your life contributed to the person you are today?

The Interviews

Dr. Ayman Hajja

 

   Dr. Ayman Hajja is a professor at UNC Charlotte with a PhD in Computer Science. Dr.Hajja was a participant in our interview section in part because he exemplified our target audience and also as a scholarly figure to put his insight on his views of money within society. Dr. Hajja gave an interesting and different take on money in society in that he felt very positive in which money has been moving in society and will continue. He does however disagree in the idea that money should define happiness and feels that everyone can have different views of success/ happiness and it’s not necessarily wrong if money helped one get there. Dr. Hajja is an individual whom most would describe as an optimist in all areas; society, oneself, goals, and mankind. His interview represents how money has a postive influence in society. 


 

 

 

 

About the Interviews

 

We asked all of the 10 interview questions to different people including us and posted some of them here for you to enjoy

 

Natalia's Interview

 

This is Natalia's interview and her opinions on money and its effect on humanity

Indira's Interview

 

 Indira is a psychology major at UNC Charlotte. In her interview she discusses her opinions of money and how it has affected her life. Much like many middle class or sturggling families, she talks about her relationship with money and how it has influenced to strive for better things in life. Though this opinion seems positive in correlating with money being used for good, Indira also sees the negative impact money can have on people. Because of her insight with psychology she does discuss how money can make individuals become depressed and other ailments. Her insight correlates with our discussion of money shouldn't run our lives and her view on society with money is one  that could pottentially hurt us. What is intesresting about Indira's interview is that it exemplifies the gray area money has where its opinions can't be chosen to one side. 

Larissa's Interview

 

This is Larissa's interview and her opinions on money and its effect on humanity

Ellana's Interview

 

This is Ellana's interview and her opinions on money and its effect on humanity. As a college student attending UNC Charlotte, she speaks out for most college students seeing the positive of money within government aid, but also the negative in stating her worries of success and happiness and how a stable income defines such two. She does point out however that with the project she wants to start realizing that money isn't everything nor should it define success. 

Survey Results

The survey results suggests that students correlate money as a positive to society and that with out money we wouldn't succeed economically. The interesting thing is that student's didnt believe that the society we live in has a successful financial system. How could something that has a postivie effect on society not be successful? Some ideas that could've caused such results is that; yes, economically we have achieved great heights like credit cards and the stock systeme. On the other hand, the reason people might think our financial system isn't working is in issues like fluctuations that occur in the markets resulting in recessions, also, going back to the class system we live in justifies the idea that we have a problem in the system because there's few that have wealth and many that live in poverty. 

 

An overall opinion of success that is a trend with the interviews and surveys is that most individuals do not define success with money and that's an answer we want to here. After all, we are trying to make a point in putting less emphasis on money running our society. Lastly, what seems like the sad truth is that society does base success off of how much income a person recieves. So what the results represents is that all though we as individuals are aware that success shouldn't be defined by money, we all let it be defined by such in a society. This is a problem because we are letting a vicious cycle continue by allowing an opinion we all know is essentially wrong. 

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