A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”
Many scholars, when mentioning the term “money worship,” often simply treat it as a “label” — especially from the standpoint of humanistic scholars, “money worship” is obviously a bad thing. This is somewhat like “idealism,” “agnosticism,” and so on: for example, when a thought has an “idealistic” tendency, it is tantamount to saying that it has a “bad” tendency, and in the case of an idealist philosopher’s agnostic thought, this sort of criticism is almost as good as saying nothing at all and can simply be ignored. Likewise, criticisms of money worship, relativism, and nihilism must avoid falling into this kind of childishness. In certain groups where rejection of money…
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