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Weber's image, used by Jiang, for capitalism as a prison created from a tool that was once meant to express faith.
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Weber's image, used by Jiang, for capitalism as a prison created from a tool that was once meant to express faith.
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diagnosis
Industrial capitalism is an irresistible mechanism that shapes family, school, grades, tests, and everyday life until resources are exhausted.
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Money was supposed to be a tool for connecting with God, but capitalism turns the tool into a prison or iron cage.
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"And there's no denying this system. You cannot, you can never free yourself from the system. You're stuck inside the system. But not only..."
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"...right? But the faith decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage, okay? Money was supposed to be a tool. Money was supposed..."
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"So the idea was in a Catholic church, if you wanted to be an ascetic, if you wanted to deny the world, you went..."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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