Still, a mirror image is, ultimately, just that: the same thing, only backwards. Before long in each case we end up with an endless maze of paired opposites—egoism versus altruism, profit versus charity, materialism versus idealism, calculation versus spontaneity—none of which could ever have been imagined except by someone starting out from pure, calculating, self-interested market transactions.65
Important note! This is fascinating - essentially it is saying that spiritual movements like Confucianism and Taoism that rejected entirely the "profit motive" as the guiding force for human decision-making, even if it led to less violent ends, were developed in direct rebuttal to the profit motive - i.e., its mirror image.
