In the text, the narrator looked into a time capsule that discussed human history, especially around the concept of money and how in a way it became our god. Money since its creation has been something desired by all people. This desire for wanting money would soon lead to the downfall of humanity and leave behind an abandoned planet that’s dried out with no life.

In the text the narrator seems to be someone or something that comes from a different world and or time looking back on human history with an emphasis on how money affected society. The narrator explains that in the second aged people became in awe with money to the point where they said if you had enough of it you could fly. I think this is a very interesting idea because in today’s society we use terms like “trenches” and “mud” when referring to being in a low-income neighborhood or being in a low-income situation yourself. So, when I see that money is being described as something that can make you fly it makes me think about how people in those low-income environments would want to “fly” out of those “trenches”. Money has been used as a symbol to fly out of the bad environment to leave the underground trenches of poverty. Using money as a symbol for flight also expresses how we want to ascend to better things and gain more money for the benefit of a better life. However, this leads to the problem of “flying too high” or greed. In today’s society money being such a symbol of ascension and capability, we grow greedy and only look to have even more and more money. To the point where we can’t even use it in our own lifetime and then get the goal of making the money you earn last generations. In this way we start to fly too high and let the money take control over us and start to use any tactic for money. This is shown in today’s world with corporate greed where many business owners undermine and underpay their employees for the benefit of more money in their pockets.