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Traditional Hedonism...was Based On The Direct Experience Of Pleasure: Wine, Women And Song; Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll; Or Whatever The Local Variant. The Problem, From A Capitalist Perspective, Is That There Are Inherent Limits To All This. People Become Sated, Bored...modern Self-illusory Hedonism Solves This Dilemma Because Here, What One Is Really Consuming Are Fantasies And Day-dreams About What Having A Certain Product Would Be Like.

A Debt ... Is Just An Exchange That Has Not Been Brought To Completion.

The Notion That A Society Could Be Regulated Entirely By Market Forces Is A Utopian Fantasy: An Impossible Dream Generated By Imagining What The World Would Be Like If Everyone's Behavior Was Utterly Consistent With Some Abstract Moral Ideal-in This Case, Economic Theories That Assume All Human Action Is Based On Calculating, Systematic, (but Scrupulously Law-abiding), Greed.

There Seems A General Rule That, The More Obviously One’s Work Benefits Other People, The Less One Is Likely To Be Paid For It.

Free Market Ideology - Does Anyone Know Where It First Comes From? It Comes From Medieval Islam, And Specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a Provided This Commercial Law That Is Independent From The State.