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material wealth - Coggle Diagram
material wealth
People became attached to material things
measure of social status
Gold rush
raising standard of living
"going from rags to riches"
It is really important, but not the most important value, and they find it rude to call them materialistic
Materialism
Material wealth became a value to the American people
an amount of money or material possessions
boosting a person's economic motivation
measure of success
Showing off
material possessions as a measure of success and social status
USA as a land of plenty where people come to seek the fortune
attachement to material things
"going from rags to riches"
people's children would have the opportunity for a better life
improved life conditions
wealth inequalities might have appeared
gives you a head start
1% of Americans holds roughly 27% of the national wealth nowdays:(
material wealth as indicator of personal success