For the past six hundred years a culture and a society, dedicated for the most part to development and trade as the ultimate source of well being, began to expand all over the world. In a great number of ways this development, capitalism, became the most successful culture and society the world has ever seen. Capitalism ascended as a successful social means. It was successful as it provided a more effective means of creating a …
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…such wealth, often this leads tofrustration, once the worker comes realize they may never reach the status of the elite. Often times myths are used as a method of erasing such beliefs, as they do not address the real problems at hand. No matter what is done it seems there will always be a gap between the rich, or the employers, and the poor, or the employees. Bibliography Bodley, John. Cultural Anthropology. Mayfield Publishing, Toronto, 2000