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> > This is the purpose of capitalism (i.e. acquiring capital). > Keep your costs down, and buy as much as you can or you will end up on the rat race treadmill until you die. This is a sad reality of the system. It's not built for people to prosper individually or societally, it's about getting people who have money more money. Sure, as a side effect this gives the lucky few the resources to acquire what they need reliably; but often that means giving up your enjoyment of life to pursue investment. > The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dancehall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express yourown life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth. - Karl Marx |