Market penetration shifted emotional investment into the private sphere
Evidence
Amassing wealth marked the beginning of an ancient transition from relatively egalitarian seminomadic hunter-gatherer communities—in which people were valued for their actual abilities—to agricultural and industrial societies, in which people were measured less by actual achievement and more by prestige, which itself was largely based upon the acquisition and exhibition of wealth. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 438 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Treating emotions as internal reinforces agency as self-ownership against external threats; Wealth accumulation shifted social valuation from actual ability to prestige. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 438; Profitable capitalism must forever discover new uncommodified emotions to exploit — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 129 (+3 more)
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Broader Connections
- Treating emotions as internal reinforces agency as self-ownership against external threats
#complicates(0.75) - Wealth accumulation shifted social valuation from actual ability to prestige.
#complicates(0.70) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 438