“It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.”
“Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.”
“Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.”
“The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves.”
“If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.”
“Great offense and poor defense translate into under accumulation of wealth.”