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Philip Slater - Wealth addiction (1980)

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One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.

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Born: May 15, 1927
Died: June 20, 2013 (aged 86)
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