Capitalism vs Cashism

Capitalism vs Cashism.

For decades, the media have shown us images of people referred to as “wealthy,” individuals with a large amount of money, enough to give away, waste, or burn. These individuals bathe in money, use it as a pillow, light expensive cigars, and throw it out of windows.

This image of the wealthy person is sold to us as synonymous with opulence, success, and great fortune. From a young age, we are exposed to this prototype of a person, many children take it as a model to follow, others accept that they could never become one, but in general, everyone accepts as an undeniable truth that the wealthy person is the absolute representation of success, the pinnacle of our society, the best thing that can happen to us in life.

The idea of opulence is not new; it has accompanied humanity since the dawn of civilization and has evolved alongside the economy, creating new mechanisms and forms of opulence.

We can make hypotheses about the ideas of opulence in prehistory, but to be objective, it would be better to limit ourselves to antiquity without delving too deeply into imaginative territories.

Opulence in the ancient age.