"real wealth resides not in the accumulation of possessions but in the cultivation of wisdom"
100%. Real estate derives value from the people that inhabit it and so do cities (and nightclubs and companies). Blogs like this attract certain readers and continuous quality keeps us here.
People switch up the cause and effect. You don't necessarily become a better writer by writing more, you do it by having better ideas and communicating them more effectively. You don't necessarily acquire status by buying a status item - the items acquires status from the people that use it, due to its great functionality or expression of the users. Just some thoughts.
Thanks for this! The idea that we have moved beyond a materialist culture is really interesting. One of my favorite explanations of this shift comes from Byung Chul-Han. In his book, Non-things, he discusses how we are shifting from a culture of things to information, which is non-material. We have lost even the connection to the world that materialism offered. We are, at it were, set adrift in the timeless, disconnected, ethereal world of information.
Harold S Kushner ( a Rabbi) has written an excellent book on this called "When all you ever wanted is not enough". He used the book of Ecclesiastes as the basis for his book.
"real wealth resides not in the accumulation of possessions but in the cultivation of wisdom"
100%. Real estate derives value from the people that inhabit it and so do cities (and nightclubs and companies). Blogs like this attract certain readers and continuous quality keeps us here.
People switch up the cause and effect. You don't necessarily become a better writer by writing more, you do it by having better ideas and communicating them more effectively. You don't necessarily acquire status by buying a status item - the items acquires status from the people that use it, due to its great functionality or expression of the users. Just some thoughts.
Thanks for this! The idea that we have moved beyond a materialist culture is really interesting. One of my favorite explanations of this shift comes from Byung Chul-Han. In his book, Non-things, he discusses how we are shifting from a culture of things to information, which is non-material. We have lost even the connection to the world that materialism offered. We are, at it were, set adrift in the timeless, disconnected, ethereal world of information.
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Ecclesiastes is a couple of millennia ahead of you on this.
Harold S Kushner ( a Rabbi) has written an excellent book on this called "When all you ever wanted is not enough". He used the book of Ecclesiastes as the basis for his book.