Money is the measure of all things, and profit the primary goal. For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more—always more—even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have.

— Paulo Freire Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)

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