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Iconic negative images of accumulators abound in our culture; they are usually greedy, stingy, single men, from Ebenezer Scrooge to the Simpsons’ Mr. Burns. But when accumulation is done on behalf of one’s family, and includes hard work, disciplined consumption and some measure of charity — that is, it exemplifies the Protestant Ethic — it becomes a moral duty. Therefore, when class traitors critique the conditions under which wealth is accumulated and to try to interrupt its accumulation, they also challenge notions of good personhood, good parenthood, and good manhood.
Against Accumulation: Class Traitors Challenge Wealth and Worth
Rachel Sherman
Whether on land, on sea, or in outer space, the quest for self-sovereignty is less important as an example of apocalypse preparedness than it is as an exposé of the underlying, __Ayn Rand fantasies of the tech elite: the most rational and productive among us escape to pursue their self-interests, empowered to build an independent economy of their own, free from the moral consequences of their actions.__
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
“A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny. Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work” (Lafargue, 1909, p. 9).
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
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