deprecates this mental model

or depreci*a*tes it?

can one aprecate things? capital appreciates us as we accumulate it.

so deprecate money before it desecrates us...

sophisticated objectivism, eh? mature social  capitalism?

hmm

magisterially pithy comment, especially the phrase about the wolf pack.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty