Been a while since someone posted this one guess it’s my turn https://t.co/oCoZY4lUhM
Been a while since someone posted this one guess it’s my turn https://t.co/oCoZY4lUhM
distilled happiness to the knowledge that you have enough. It is not an easy knowledge to live with amid the commodified counterfeits of happiness that light up these sunset days of Western civilization, with its mesmerism of maximums and its cult of more, materially and spiritually — capitalism goads us to do more in order to own more while the se... See more
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
Karl Marx was wrong about a lot of things in economics, but we’re now realizing he was also right about some stuff. When you remove people’s emotional connection to their labor and treat them merely as machines that produce effort, it’s soul killing.
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Karl Marx had a different view: that being occupied by good work was living well. Engagement in productive, purposeful work was the means by which people could realise their full potential.
The Economist • Why Do We Work So Hard?
THE PRODUCTION OF TOO MANY USEFUL THINGS RESULTS IN TOO MANY USELESS PEOPLE. KARL MARX
Daniel Godfrey • The Synapse Sequence
embodies the principle, “More for me is less for you,”
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
– Epictetus
Equipped with this knowledge, people decided that they didn’t want to spend their entire lives thinking about money. They wanted the Nothingness of Money to start earlier than the last few moments of their lives, so they could spend at least a few decades living without the attentional drain of their finances.
Lawrence Yeo • The Nothingness of Money - More to That
Consume old stuff when you're young and new stuff when you're old. This is the opposite of what most people do