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CanSocDem

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9. While working in the USA I noticed...
Wed Oct 2, 2013, 09:05 AM
Oct 2013


...that alcohol played a crucial role in the market-oriented culture. In different industries in different regions, alcohol was used to soothe the harsh judgments required to survive in the free market. The whole fundamental premise of competing for material wealth appears to create such deep moral guilt, that the only way through it is to be clinically drunk.

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