This contradiction between the quantitative limitation and the
qualitative lack of limitation of #money keeps driving the hoarder back
to his Sisyphean task: #accumulation.
[...]
The hoarder therefore sacrifices the lusts of his flesh to the fetish of
gold. He takes the gospel of abstinence very seriously. . . . Work,
thrift and greed are therefore his three cardinal virtues, and to sell
much and buy little is the sum of his political economy.
[Karl #Marx, Capital I (trans. Ben Fowkes), 231]