"raghu" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary < > [email protected] > wrote:
Sure, but I still think that wanting to become rich and wanting to exercise coercive power are two very different things. > Are they? > What are the main reasons why people want more money? > The obvious reason is to improve their material conditions of living. > This works until you have accumulated enough money to make your life > comfortable and your future reasonably secure > But why do people who are already financially secure want more money? It would be irrational to want less money. > Partly it is social norms that dictate that you should always want more > money. No, it's just common sense. > But, I do believe, a very large part of the attractiveness of being rich is > being > able to exercise power over others. That's mainly a sociopath view. -- Ron
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