Almighty dollar - obsession for material wealth is ugly

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Almighty dollar is an idiom often used to satirize an obsession for material wealth (the phrase implies that money is a kind of deity).

The beginning of the realisation that wealth can engender quasi-religious respect has been attributed to British writer Ben Johnson, who wrote in 1616:

"Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,

And almost every vice, almightie gold"^[1]

The "dollar" version of the phrase is commonly attributed to Washington Irving, who used it in the story "The Creole Village", which was first published in the 1837 edition of The Magnolia, a literary annual.^{[2][note 1]}

"The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty."

The New American Dream

Mayor Nutter is imposing the ban on all outdoor feedings of large numbers of people on city parkland, including Love Park and the Ben Franklin Parkway, where it is not uncommon for outreach groups to offer free food.  

http://crookedtimber.org/2012/01/20/selling-votes/

Why aren’t citizens allowed to sell their votes to the highest bidder? (Bear with me for a minute.) You may at first be inclined to say that it’s like the stricture against selling yourself into slavery: we don’t let citizens strip themselves of the most basic political rights and liberties. But I’m not talking about disenfranchising yourself permanently. Let’s focus just on the case in which you sell one vote in one particular election, or on a particular measure. It’ll grow back. You can vote next time. It’s like working for pay, rather than selling yourself into slavery. A short-term surrender of rights and liberties for the sake of something you want: namely, cash. It’s hard to see that giving up the right to vote in one election – which you honestly may not care much about – would be permanently crippling to someone’s status as a free citizen.

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Electoral fraud is not limited to political polls and can happen in any election where a cheater perceives the potential gain as worth the risk, as in elections forlabor union officials, student councils, sports judging, and the awarding of merit to books, films, music or television programmes.

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This can lead to the breakdown of democracy and the establishment of a dictatorship.

"Selfish wealth is never good": A Worker's Definition of Success

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“Selfish wealth is never good”: A Worker's Definition of Success ... Such a man would be hooted at onWall Street by the men who speculate in the earnings of ...

http://www.lovelyish.com/720805264/designer-clothes-that-are-uglyand-expensive/

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  I'm all for buying clothes that are fashionable AND affordable. But I have a friend who's really into designer clothing. The way he explains it is that it makes him feel important and rich.

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Once upon a time, in the late 70’s there was a beautiful women named Jocelyn Wildenstein. Jocelyn really had it made. She was a fresh-faced mother of two and married to an extremely rich art dealer. 

http://theuglytruthaboutmoney.com/