This will make more sense post-scarcity....

"The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
- Aristotle

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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything."
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"For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome."
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"Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe."
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