ANATOLY IVANOV / PROSE / 2023-01-24

MORE MONEY CAN BUY YOU MORE PILLS

by Anatoly IVANOV

ECONOMICS / HEALTH / PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIETY / ESSAYS

“America is a kind, generous place… if you have money. It’s a rapacious, violent place if you don’t have money.

To be wealthy in America is to be loved. People find you interesting, they want to know you. You have a broader selection of mates.

I think about money a lot. I did nothing but pretty much work for 20 years. I don’t remember much else but work. It cost me my hair. It cost me my first marriage. And it was worth it.”

— Scott Galloway.

How bleak of a life, how shallow of a civilization? And generation after generation built it, knowingly, on purpose. But worry not, Scott believes depression can be solved with antidepressants.

If you have the money. More pills, more money, more work, more pills, more…

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