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I actively share the goal of seeking "meaning, value, importance, and purpose", but I haven't found that the amount of stuff I own makes much impact on this goa
by mseebach 9y ago
I actively share the goal of seeking "meaning, value, importance, and purpose", but I haven't found that the amount of stuff I own makes much impact on this goal (and the impact it does make is at least ambiguous, not clearly negative).
We call people who drive cars to go places "drivers" instead of "arrivers" because driving is the most significant difference between them and people who seek to go places as pedestrians, bicyclists, or train, boat or airplane passengers.
There are plenty of people seek to "maximalize meaning, value, importance, and purpose" but one subgroup emphasizes the significance of the absence of stuff, and so it makes sense to distinguish them by this, rather than the goal which they share very broadly.