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Philip Slater
American sociologist and social criticWikipedia
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Oct 7, 2026
Is pay for performance is breaking under modern expectations?
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29:07James SeechurnGUEST
That's the dangerous thing as well.
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29:08James SeechurnGUEST
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.
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29:15James SeechurnGUEST
You can coach people to be ladder addicts.
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29:18James SeechurnGUEST
You can take a person that is initially fulfilled and a belief in the mission and their purpose and a higher need.
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40:58Michael KimmelGUEST
There was a great book, there was a great book maybe 40, 50 years ago by a sociologist, and it was called Wealth Addiction.
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41:04Michael KimmelGUEST
Uh, his name was Philip Slater, and he did...
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41:06Michael KimmelGUEST
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.
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41:24Michael KimmelGUEST
And they were all unhappy.