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Most people are not interested in being as wealth as the king, or the nobles, but they are interested in having an extra pig and a hut that doesn't leak.

• TangoTrotFox 9y ago
  Until they have that pig and hut that doesn't leak. Look at the typical poor in the US just a matter of decades ago. No indoor plumbing, no electricity, certainly no air conditioning, etc, etc. Flour and feed sacks would even come with patterns and designs on them. The reason is that people were regularly fashioning clothes out of those sacks and the companies saw it as a selling point. Many of these things we really can't even imagine today. But of course people are not suddenly content. When the standard of living changes people take it for granted and then seek more. It's not a bad thing. This never-ending desire for more is undoubtedly a big part of the evolutionary drive that's brought us to where we are, but it also means people will never be content. Describe the life of the poor today to people from not all that long ago and it would seem like we live in a utopia - air conditioning, electric toys, color television, cars, regular access to food, indoor plumbing? But of course we see things quite differently! And I expect in a few hundred years we'd see the lives of the poor of that time as something like utopia, but they too will undoubtedly see things quite differently! Man's nature is a great and awful thing!