“Though modern economists have long since jettisoned the moral hierarchies of its Victorian forebears in favor of an abstracted vision of self-interested, utility-maximizing agents, their assumption that utility can be infinitely generated through the acquisition of wealth still contains within it the kernel of its origins in the hierarchy and insatiability of wants.”
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/vibe-goes-down
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