Some people choose to believe so but others don’t. i wouldn’t think of it much.
In the social sciences, materialism signifies a preoccupation with materiality and material processes, and how these contribute to forming the social. ... Both directions of materialism engage with material inequalities, whether it is between different social classes, or between humans and nonhumans.An example of materialism is valuing a new car over friendships.
A man can objectively take a closer view at their own particular patterns of behavior and figure out what is unsafe and what is valuable. Benjamin Franklin made a routine with regards to consistently checking himself and enacting different rules to make him more effective, like he is known to have said:
"<span>I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish."
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