mammonism
Money above all
Mammonism is devotion to wealth and material gain as the highest value.
The term derives from Mammon, the biblical personification of riches as a false god.
Someone accused of mammonism treats money-making as life's central purpose: The mammonism of Wall Street culture rewards greed above all else.
Excessive desire for wealth
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- cupidityEager desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
hoarding · grasping · money-grubbing · miserliness · penny-pinching · stinginess · parsimony · tightfistedness
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- worldlinessSecular, experienced outlook
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- possessivenessExcessive attachment to ownership
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
status-seeking · affluenza · earthly · secular · tangibility · physicalism
Rule by the rich
- affluenceAbundance of money
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- prosperityGood fortune, success
riches · fortune · pelf · treasure · abundance · ostentation · extravagance · gilded
State-group policy collaboration
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- commercialismProfit-driven value system
- monetizationConverting something into revenue
mercantilism · neoliberalism · privatization · deregulation · trickle-down · oligarchy · robber-baron · financialization
greed
Excessive desire for wealth
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- cupidityEager desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
acquisitiveness · hoarding · grasping · money-grubbing · miserliness · penny-pinching · stinginess · parsimony · tightfistedness · penuriousness
consumerism
Preoccupation with acquiring goods
- worldlinessSecular, experienced outlook
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- possessivenessExcessive attachment to ownership
commodification · status-seeking · affluenza · earthly · secular · tangibility · physicalism
plutocracy
Rule by the rich
prosperity · riches · fortune · pelf · treasure · abundance · ostentation · extravagance · gilded · moneyed
corporatism
State-group policy collaboration
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- commercialismProfit-driven value system
monetization · mercantilism · neoliberalism · privatization · deregulation · trickle-down · oligarchy · robber-baron · financialization
mammonismspiritualism
Communion with the deceased
spirituality · idealism · otherworldliness · anti-materialism · transcendentalism
mammonismasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
austerity · self-denial · monasticism · abstinence · renunciation
mammonismaltruism
Prioritizing others' wellbeing
philanthropy · generosity · charity · selflessness · benevolence