The other day when I was running my English Conversation Class for adults, I was asking a bunch of conversation starter type questions -- like "What's your favorite food?" or "What's your favorite thing to do in the summer?" One of the one's that I asked that -- surprisingly -- made everyone uncomfortable was "What would you do if you have $100,000,000?"
The general consensus was "We don't need that much money."
I thought it was interesting. You ask someone in America that question and they'll ramble on about the cars and houses and things they'd buy, the charities they'd donate to, the bills they paid. But with my conversation students the conversation just came to a grinding halt when I asked that question.
Inside Job is essentially about greed and how very smart people made very risky decisions and put a lot of people in danger so they can make a lot of money. And hands down my favorite part was when they say that when you make money, the same part of your brain is stimulated as when you take cocaine. COCAINE.
So it was all a very nice documentary, but to top it all off, it's narrated by Matt Damon who I think its pretty sexy. I mean c'mon. Have you seen the Jason Borne movies? Of course you have. Matt Damon is a beast and him and that narrator voice can get in my pants.
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