Money Degrades Existence and Dulls

That’s right: money degrades existence and dulls when put in the foreground. The generation of volunteer slaves is among the stupidest of all times. Devoting the bulk of life, the bulk of spirit and energy to material accumulation is simply infamous. But here comes the disturbing question: how to dose, limit the effort, prevent degradation and, while retaining independence, not be completely crushed by the environment?

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Read more:

• The Provincial Letters, by Blaise Pascal
• The Great Art Demands the Great Themes
• It Is Amazing How the Need for Money Makes Existence Worse
• To Be Poor or to Be a Slave?