the idolization of financial wealth as an end in itself
Thanks for writing this response to that article, Samuel. I wanted to make this same point, but I was too pissed off to be articulate. You said it well. The truly ironic thing about that piece, and also the fact that it ran in The Mission (which caters to people who read articles like this), is that almost no one reading it with enthusiasm and feeding their “idolization of financial wealth as an end in itself” is ever actually going to be rich. The pyramid scheme of wealth distribution holds them squarely in the middle (and upper middle) every bit as much as it holds the poor at the bottom. This kind of article is a brainwashing carrot for middle managers. It’s the white and gold collar equivalent of an advertisement for lottery tickets. They, too, are being milked like cows by the 1%. But the myth they could one day “be a winner” and join the 1% themselves keeps them passive and pushing the real money upstream.
