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Money functions like a god because it is treated as everywhere and socially mandatory.
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money as God
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Glossary
Money as the abstract object that becomes the end-all and be-all of modern life.
Glossary
The Protestant mental conflation of money and God that turns wealth into evidence of faith and election.
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Money becomes godlike through omnipresence: even dissenting from it privately does not matter so long as the surrounding social world continues to enforce it everywhere.
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Making capital more abstract culminates in money as God: a symbol that is both nothing and everything and can consume an entire life.
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Protestantism and then the Enlightenment increase the abstraction and extraction power of transnational capital, culminating in money replacing God.
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The Enlightenment moves from an inactive God to a human-made world, creating a need for money to replace God as the organizing sacred object.
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By conflating God with money, Protestants can read wealth as evidence that they truly believe and therefore belong among the elect.
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"So money if you think about it is actually valueless. Okay? But it's like lead. But in our world it becomes gold. So this..."
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"Okay? Do you understand? Doesn't matter what you believe it's money is valuable because it's everywhere and everything. Okay? It is God. So we..."
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"So this is a first trick that we've learned over the centuries. The second trick is to make capital more abstract, okay? So the..."
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"will show you, the great innovation of the past hundred years is to convince people that money is God. Money is both nothing and..."
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"...it's a all just an illusion okay second is to make money God the end all and be all both nothing and everything the..."
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"So what I will do is explain to you what the Protestant Reformation is. The Protestant Reformation radically changes how we see ourselves and..."
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"Okay? So you can only invest the money. All right, and as you can understand, the merchant oligarchies love this because now they're taking..."
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"This becomes the holy, this becomes money, okay? Money as God. And this works because if you insert money into the Protestant faith, it..."
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"then once the standardization happens it reshapes reality into a rational order okay does that make sense all right okay so let's go back..."
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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 as long as you're still willing to believe in money as God this doesn't matter. The problem is that from a fiscal perspective..."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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