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Alexis de Tocqueville * known for "Democracy in America" (1835), * money being the only achievement that America respected; book being sold being judged at market value instead of literary value, * democracy breeds envy and shame; when variations of wealth are small the slightest variation attracts attention whereas in Europe with a hierarchical and unjust system people do not need to take the…