쉐도잉 연습: CONTEMPORARY TOPICS UNIT 10 ECONOMICS THE EVOLUTION OF MONEY - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Money.
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It's one of the greatest creations of human history and has played a positive role in the development of modern civilization.
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However, we haven't always used money.
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If we look back, say, more than 3 ,000 years ago, which is when coins first appeared,
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we would find that most people conducted business using a system of direct exchange called barter.
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For instance, I might exchange my five chickens for your three sheep.
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That's barter.
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Today, I'll be talking about some advantages of money over barter, how money has undergone change over time, and the benefits of money.
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Okay, in early societies, land and agriculture provided the main forms of wealth and power.
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How?
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Because only landowners could grow large amounts of food and raise large amounts of animals, such as cattle and sheep.
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Although people could carry out limited business transactions by bartering animals and vegetables, the barter system was doomed to fail.
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Why?
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Well, you'll see through the four enormous advantages of money I'm about to explain.
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The first advantage is that financial transactions of any size can take place,
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an advantage that increased tremendously when paper money was introduced.
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For example, it's simple for a company to make a transaction involving millions or billions of dollars when using money.
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Second, transactions involving money can be done fast.
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People who have money can get it and transfer it to another person rapidly.
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This means that business can be conducted quickly.
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And now, of course, with electronic transactions, money can be moved over any distance in a flash.
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Third, money allows people to do business with anyone, across cultural or geographic boundaries,
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and this greatly expands business opportunities.
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Money truly enjoys universal acceptance.
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The fourth advantage is that the value of money is precise and consistent.
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Precise means that the value of money can be determined in exact ways,
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$5 .49 or $5 .51 sense.
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Money is also consistent because the value of one dollar is one dollar.
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It isn't subjective.
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And even when the value of a currency fluctuates, it fluctuates for everyone.
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Okay, let me say a few words about the evolution of money.
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Originally, money was a physical object found in nature, cattle and grains for example.
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It then evolved to become a manufactured physical object, such as gold and silver coins.
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Next, money became something more abstract, something that is symbolic of physical objects such as gold and silver.
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At this stage in its evolution, money became pieces of paper, such as paper money and stock certificates.
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While gold and silver coins have real value, paper doesn't because it's completely separated from what it once represented, gold.
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This was an enormous evolutionary leap because money moved from being a concrete, physical object to being a symbolic, abstract idea.
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And this This idea worked only because people had a great deal of trust and faith in the principle.
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Okay, now what about the benefits that have resulted from the invention of money?
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I'll cover three.
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The invention has benefited commerce, human initiative, and individual freedom.
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Traditionally, wealth was handed down from parent to child in the form of land.
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And because few people were landowners, few people had any hope of advancing in society or of becoming even moderately wealthy.
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However, as agriculture became increasingly efficient, more and more people abandoned farm work.
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These people began to live in cities, and to make their livings by offering non -agricultural products and services.
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Money was the facilitator of this commerce because, as we just saw, money allows business people to sell goods to anyone, right?
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Second point, the rise of commerce increased individual initiative because wealth was no longer necessarily tied to heredity.
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Instead, brains and hard work became important.
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The result?
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Growing middle class and upper classes of relatively wealthy people.
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And thirdly, people working in non -agricultural businesses gained the freedom to choose their own futures.
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For example, education became accessible to many more people.
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As a result, they were better able to function independently and successfully.
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This further accelerated the growth of both new businesses and money.
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Can you see that?
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All right, to sum up, money is one of the greatest and most productive tools ever created by human beings.
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It's a tool that's strongly related to human and social development,
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to creativity, and, frankly, to turning dreams into reality.
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But the true source of all of these benefits is not money itself, because money is just an abstraction.
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Humans are the ones who give meaning to money, and through this very human use of trust and faith,
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millions of people have been able to live better, more comfortable, and more fulfilling lives.

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빼놓을 수 없는 단어와 표현

  • barter: 물물교환. "I exchanged my chickens for sheep"와 같은 문장에서 자주 사용됩니다.
  • fluctuate: (가치나 양이) 변동하다. "The value of currency fluctuates"처럼 화폐 가치의 변화를 설명할 때 쓰입니다.
  • facilitator: 촉진자, 매개체. "Money was the facilitator of commerce"에서 경제 활동을 돕는 요소를 나타냅니다.

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