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Jay Fox, Stay Thirsty What bothers me about this Mammonism is that it seems to imply that the rest of us who don’t want to own a business, who want more out of life than just money and power, who have some kind of propensity for art or music or writing, who simply want to have a good job so that we sit down and have a beer at a place like Marshall Stack, and perhaps one day start a family and buy a piece of property, are lazy or somehow morally beneath them. It’s not the typical right-wing idol worship of Randian titans, like David Brook’s recent hagiography of Elon Musk, but, instead, a worldview that is, to me, absolutely repulsive. I don’t find it offensive because Romney believes that accumulating wealth is an ethical end in-itself; rather, it’s because he believes that refusal to behave as he does is unethical.   Published: 2012-10-07