The capitalist class [...] forced upon the worker a subjectivity that viewed work as a debt owed at one and the same time to God and Mammon.

a "hobby" Dean, a Christian, perhaps invoking biblical maxims about God and mammon, finds "debased and distorted"

It’s hard, though, not to be sympathetic to their excoriated, Mammon-fixated fathers. All they wanted (conceived of in one way) was the best for their precocious, privileged, one might even say bratty sons.

‘Well I was caught up in that too,’ said Saul. ‘Being a Trot made you feel you had a role in world history. Aiming for something higher than mere Mammon.’

the Reagan era ushered in a new age of Mammon-worship