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Like greed, materialism is a vice that tends to afflict those with more money than oneself.
4 Materialism vs. idealism.
Along with serious scholars like Michael Walzer and unserious publicists like Amitai Etzioni, Sandel criticizes "minimalist liberalism"--the tradition made most famous by John Stuart Mill--for too easily celebrating individualism and materialism at the expense of social and moral issues.
It said the encyclical, the 13 th of his pontificate, will set out the church's thinking on the future of mankind, expressing fears about modern materialism and urging people to look into the real meaning of life.
Shunning shallow materialism is a way to express contempt for the upper class while being a member of the upper class.