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The midas Legacy - a Psychological Approach

So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer" (Claudian, In Rufinem). 

In a version told by Nathaniel Hawthorne in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852), Midas found that when he touched his daughter, she turned to gold as well.

Research Concept

Only the possession of an enormous amount of money gives a decisive direction to the life of its owner which the wealthy person can hardly escape from. (G. Simmel, (1900). Philosophy of Money, p.311)
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last modified: March 2020