A high-school English teacher of mine once told our class, "If you can't get want you need, you try to get an infinite amount of some substitute." I think, in part, this accounts for the very intense greed and avarice in the absurdly rich. But something else appeared or reappeared in the Reagan era: people thought about money in different ways. I don't think my parents and grandparents thought much about investing; they thought about security. I don't think they admired rich people, although they may have envied them. They had a bittersweet attitude like the one expressed by Tevya in "Fiddler on the Roof" - "If I were a rich man...". In any case, somehow modern attitudes have resulted in intense wage slavery, with a focus on money instead of on living.
Capitalism will be dead soon. Oil will become economically unviable to extract, and that means bye bye to the renewable's economy, another form of environmental disaster. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-end-of-oil
A high-school English teacher of mine once told our class, "If you can't get want you need, you try to get an infinite amount of some substitute." I think, in part, this accounts for the very intense greed and avarice in the absurdly rich. But something else appeared or reappeared in the Reagan era: people thought about money in different ways. I don't think my parents and grandparents thought much about investing; they thought about security. I don't think they admired rich people, although they may have envied them. They had a bittersweet attitude like the one expressed by Tevya in "Fiddler on the Roof" - "If I were a rich man...". In any case, somehow modern attitudes have resulted in intense wage slavery, with a focus on money instead of on living.
A high-school English teacher of mine once told our class, "If you can't get want you need, you try to get an infinite amount of some substitute." I think, in part, this accounts for the very intense greed and avarice in the absurdly rich. But something else appeared or reappeared in the Reagan era: people thought about money in different ways. I don't think my parents and grandparents thought much about investing; they thought about security. I don't think they admired rich people, although they may have envied them. They had a bittersweet attitude like the one expressed by Tevya in "Fiddler on the Roof" - "If I were a rich man...". In any case, somehow modern attitudes have resulted in intense wage slavery, with a focus on money instead of on living.
Greed is at the heart of every bad decision that humans make. This includes pretty much ignoring climate change, which will lead to human extinction.
Yes
Good article. Reagan was the manifestation of Chicago School economics, originally perpetrated in South America. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-economy-we-need-to-save-ourselves I'm in favor of degrowth which I broke down here, but have little optimism will ever happen. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/degrowth-the-vision-we-must-demand
Capitalism will be dead soon. Oil will become economically unviable to extract, and that means bye bye to the renewable's economy, another form of environmental disaster. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-end-of-oil
A high-school English teacher of mine once told our class, "If you can't get want you need, you try to get an infinite amount of some substitute." I think, in part, this accounts for the very intense greed and avarice in the absurdly rich. But something else appeared or reappeared in the Reagan era: people thought about money in different ways. I don't think my parents and grandparents thought much about investing; they thought about security. I don't think they admired rich people, although they may have envied them. They had a bittersweet attitude like the one expressed by Tevya in "Fiddler on the Roof" - "If I were a rich man...". In any case, somehow modern attitudes have resulted in intense wage slavery, with a focus on money instead of on living.