"China has, in the spirit of humanitarianism, devoted a large amount of human resources, money and other materials to supplying humanitarian assistance to these Myanmar border inhabitants".
For most of human history money meant either gold or silver, either directly, or indirectly by means of the "gold standard" which meant, at least in theory, that all paper money was backed by gold.
"In my view this whole operation was a waste of human resources, money and just put Russia in a ridiculous situation," said Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB major general who spied against the US during the Soviet era, in an interview earlier this year.
Decades later, people with advanced academic degrees came to a not-dissimilar conclusion about the intersection of human psychology, money, and "positional concerns," by way of a study finding that a surprising number of people would choose to earn $50,000 in a situation in which their peers made $25,000, rather than a $100,000 in a context where $200,000 was typical.
"You're taking the greatest moral challenge, the Holocaust, and putting it together with the most base form of human interaction -- money.
Yes, the press that is willing to spend a lot of human capital and money on investigative reporting and fact-checking is dwindling.
Whether the goal is be a United States senator or a streetlight repairman, the combination of human nature and money assures a growing business for the office for decades.
Jim Murphy, the shadow Defence Secretary, told The Independent: "Failing to support those who protect our nation is a waste of human potential and money.
"This is an unconscionable waste of human life and money".
A former principal quoted in the New York Post speculated that the decline "came down to a matter of resources, both in terms of human beings and money".
