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Breaking Bourgeois

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Breaking Bad - Character Formation

The author argues that bourgeois values, the Protestant work ethic are keys to success in life. The ability to delay gratification and leaving that working hard is its own reward defines a reliable person who will do okay in life. He says Walter White's character on "Breaking Bad" was only through being those things that he became an evil drug lord.

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