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Philip Slater

American sociologist and social criticWikipedia

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Oct 7, 2026

James SeechurnGUEST
29:07
That's the dangerous thing as well.
James SeechurnGUEST
29:08
And this has been studied much in the same way you can coach people to be wealth addicts, as Philip Slater would call them, to only think about the money.
James SeechurnGUEST
29:15
You can coach people to be ladder addicts.
James SeechurnGUEST
29:18
You can take a person that is initially fulfilled and a belief in the mission and their purpose and a higher need.
Michael KimmelGUEST
40:58
There was a great book, there was a great book maybe 40, 50 years ago by a sociologist, and it was called Wealth Addiction.
Michael KimmelGUEST
41:04
Uh, his name was Philip Slater, and he did...
Michael KimmelGUEST
41:06
And it was a sort of set of mini biographies of some of the great robber barons, the great wealthy, you know, E- Edison and Rockefeller and, and, and Carnegie, and all of these guys who had amassed these massive fortunes at the turn of the 20th century.
Michael KimmelGUEST
41:24
And they were all unhappy.

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