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A comment on America’s Obsession with Self-Help. Parent comment

Re:America’s Obsession with Self-Help by enraged_camel on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:13PM (#27755042)
As someone who was born and raised overseas, I would say they take up a much larger space in the American psyche though.
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Re:America’s Obsession with Self-Help by refurb on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:26PM (#27756351)
Oh hell no. Spend some time in Asian countries and you’ll see capitalism and the love of money comes very naturally.
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Re:America’s Obsession with Self-Help by EvilEy3 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:48AM (#27757486)
Everybody loves money.
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Re:America’s Obsession with Self-Help by blooalien on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:28AM (#27758370)
> "Everybody loves money."

Yeah, not everybody. I love some of the things that money can buy, buy I genuinely hate money. Love of money brings out the absolute worst in humanity far too often, and lack of enough money causes entirely too much misery. The old phrase "money is the root of all evil" isn't all that far off from true. Greed and love of money are the cause of more problems on this planet than I can count (and I'm pretty damned good at counting).

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Re:America’s Obsession with Self-Help by EvilEy3 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @04:52AM (#27758887)
It is human nature to be greedy, because this is how we evolved.

What causes problems is inequality, not money per se.

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