What is wealth? Wealth may not always mean money or material. It is sometimes referenced to ethics and manners.
In today’s society, we have this misconception of what wealth is. We live in a society where money is the only thing of value, the most important thing in our lives. I believe money is good and important. Without it, it is impossible to thrive in the modern world, which makes it difficult even to survive. But money isn’t a god, it is not something to crave or worship, and certainly not something that should give us our identity. Giving values to our possession, having “no value in the abstract” enables us to buy things that we don’t need, making us slaves to the valueless abstract. We live in a capitalist society were planned obsolescence has become a way of life, where we are addicted to labels, and brands by the mass quantity. For example, today’s society finds happiness through a number of materials, such as clothes, cars, and games, but they are still not content with what they have, always wanting more. We buy all these things to make us complete however, these things …show more content…
He feels that, besides him, only the very wealthy know that there is a lot more of everything for the taking. However, the wealthy think so because they can afford more of anything, not because they understand the “transience of material being”, but because they can buy more. The first example of his knowledge is when he states that we should “take what you can use and let the rest go”, which lead me to think what might people become. We hope that buying these things would make us complete, but in fact, we’re just trading from one product to another, no wonder there are so many things in the