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Full Idea
By making money the sole, or almost the sole, motive of all actions, the sole, or almost the sole, measure of all things, the poison of inequality has been introduced everywhere.
Gist of Idea
By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal
Source
Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], I 'Equality')
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.18
A Reaction
Presumably this dates right back to the invention of money, and then increases with the endless rise of capitalism.
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