If Kerry writes a check for a new car, she is using money as a

Medium of Exchange

Explanation:

Money can be used in different ways such as being a medium of exchange, a store of value and unit of account. The relevant use here is as a Medium of exchange.

At some point in history, humans used the barter system to trade which means that they exchanged goods for other goods. This was a inefficient because it could be quite bothersome deciding how much of one good to exchange for another.

Money changed all that because it was able to value goods relatively and therefore be used as a medium of exchange for goods. In writing a cheque to purchase a car, Kerry is using exchanging money for the car making it a medium of exchange.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.  

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