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Originally Posted by Sadistic-Savior";p="
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But poverty is man's normal condition, because wealth, which is superflous, does not make him more a man than poverty does.
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Wealth is not superfluous. At worst, it increases the quality of life. At best, it increases the chances of survival and reproduction.
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To be rich then would be an abnormal condition for man.
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No, because "wealth" exists in every species. Lions compete for the privillage of leading the Pride. Wolves compete for the privillage of leading the pack as the Alpha Male.
The benefits are obvious. Better/more mating partners. Better food. Better living conditions. Humans have analogs to all those things, and you can see them in our nearest relatives, the Great Apes.
Wealth and desiring wealth are not abnormal at all...they are 100% natural. |
Yes it is, it consists in attributing an expressive function to everything that is superfluous, the superfluous isnt expressive otherwise it wouldnt be superfluous. The Chinese, judging from what one could see on the streets, possessed the necessary but not the superfluous. They are poor. No one could doubt that their humanity is complete, but it lacks something that could be obtained through wealth, that is, the superfluous. Before their revolution there were poor Chinese who had barely enough and rich Chinese who lived off the superfluous. The former were degraded and the latter were inhuman. As soon as the rich and their superfluity disappeared, the poor suddenly became human again, although they still had only barely enough.