“Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.” - Calvin Coolidge

I think our generation is forgetting some fundamentals: money at the expense of anything else. The problem with this approach, is not only that it destroys character in the individual, but that it also scales externalities to the rest of society.

Part of this narrative is sold by startup culture and technocrats preaching to "change the world", while in reality the majority is just chasing quick money. From FAANGs to VCs, they control the media that convince young people to do the same: Robinhood, GameStop, cryptocurrencies are just reflections of this epidemic.

This article is as ignorant as it gets as it refers to a misquoted saying "money is the root of all evil". The real quote is "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil" (aka. GREED)

"The vaunted American dream, the idea that life will get better, that progress is inevitable if we obey the rules and work hard, that material prosperity is assured, has been replaced by a hard and bitter truth. The American dream, we now know, is a lie. We will all be sacrificed. The virus of corporate abuse – the perverted belief that only corporate profit matters – has spread to outsource our jobs, cut the budgets of our schools, close our libraries, and plague our communities with foreclosures and unemployment." - Chris Hedges

Americans are forgetting their values https://m-g-h.medium.com/why-we-are-dispensable-7a577eba4f3e