He was wrong about one thing: He never made it to 90 or 100. I am old enough to understand where he is coming from, but I don't agree that acquiring property is a bad thing. I am quite Lockean and Jeffersonian about this and in fact, our country was founded by people that wanted to keep their cut of the pie. It's not a bad thing to work and create value, and turn that value into things that you need and want. If I could talk to george, we probably would agree about consumerism, which is beyond what I am talking about, but it is not greed that is the genesis, but spiritual lacking, and I don't mean that in a religious context. I think when people get tot he stage where survival becomes very easy, life becomes rather meaningless and we fill it and the time with garbage. Still, if you earn it, you can do what you want with it.
He was wrong about one thing: He never made it to 90 or 100. I am old enough to understand where he is coming from, but I don't agree that acquiring property is a bad thing. I am quite Lockean and Jeffersonian about this and in fact, our country was founded by people that wanted to keep their cut of the pie. It's not a bad thing to work and create value, and turn that value into things that you need and want. If I could talk to george, we probably would agree about consumerism, which is beyond what I am talking about, but it is not greed that is the genesis, but spiritual lacking, and I don't mean that in a religious context. I think when people get tot he stage where survival becomes very easy, life becomes rather meaningless and we fill it and the time with garbage. Still, if you earn it, you can do what you want with it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I see what you're saying.
ReplyDeleteGreed is not the root cause, but instead a symptom, of underlying problems.
To me what he describes here is another example of virtue between the vices of apathy and having too much of a stake in everything.