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The universality of the U.S. dollar made a piece of paper socially equivalent to gold and organized life around accumulation even when more money no longer changes consumption.
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Accumulation
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The baby-boomer ethos of achievement and accumulation is destroying the environment, the economy, and ultimately their children.
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Franklin’s simple living and constant achievement are reinterpreted as symptoms of middle-class anxiety: accumulation becomes the only defense against falling back into poverty.
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Capitalism begins when money is accumulated for its own sake rather than spent for communal status, feasts, parks, or redistribution.
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"And this shows you how science has become the new religion of the world. And if you think about it, the scientists that run..."
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"So that if you take your U.S. dollars, you can go anywhere in the world. And buy yourself a villa. Or enjoy a nice..."
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"...boomers have a religion, and it's an ethos of achievement and accumulation. The more the better. The bigger the better. The more money I..."
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"This is different from history where if you're born poor you stay poor. If you're a noble person you could have no money but..."
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"Well why is he focused on such a simple living? Why does he constantly want to achieve? It's because of the anxiety of being..."
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"money and how do I know I'm going to have it because I'm rich though my wealth shows that I have true faith in..."
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"money to the poor people of Rome he gave a third of his money to building parks for Rome okay and the the final..."
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"have absorbed this mentality okay we believe that we should accumulate money for the sake of accumulating money that's why we worship people like..."
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