as in philistines
a person who is chiefly interested in material comfort and is hostile or indifferent to art and culture
a materialist who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
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Swift, whose net worth surpasses $2 billion, has amassed a fortune that rivals tech founders and venture capitalists.
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Supporters included venture capitalists like Marc Andreessen, LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs, the Apple founder’s widow.
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Hang out with sheep, meet magicians and clowns and explore the amusement park.
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The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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After Game 4, jerks were throwing things at Victor Wembanyama.
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Something from this article might put me on some Ben Shapiro list, where a bunch of jerks literally will just call me ‘f****t’ or worse on my social media.
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“Materialists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialists. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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