“There is no object that cannot be obtained through money. Therefore, the wise should strive to attain wealth.
One who has wealth, has friends; one who has wealth, has allies. One who has wealth, only he is a man in this world; one who has wealth, he is a scholar.
It's not knowledge, nor charity, nor craft, nor art, nor the stability of the rich, that the petitioners don’t praise.
In this world even strangers are relatives of the rich. The poor people's own family members also always become wicked.
By the growth and accumulation of wealth, all tasks get done. Just like rivers flow out of the mountains and complete all work.
Even the undeserving get worshipped because of wealth, even the inaccessible becomes accessible, even the ignoble gets praised; all these are the influence of wealth.
Just as all senses are strengthened by eating, all works are accomplished with money. That's why money is said to be the means of everything.
For the desire of wealth, man even visits the cremation grounds. A poor man abandons even his own parents.
Even among the old, those who have money, are young. The poor turn old even in their youth.
People can obtain money in 6 ways: begging, royal service, farming, education, transactions and commerce. Of these commerce is unanimously beneficial. Many people have begged, even kings don't pay enough, farming is difficult, education is very different from the teacher's humbleness, debt can also impoverish; I don't consider any other means of livelihood than commerce.”
Source: Panchatantra
“As more things are valued in terms of information, while being “free” in terms of money, at some point it becomes misleading to evaluate the wealth of individuals and corporations in terms of the number of dollars or pesos they possess. A person or corporation with little money in the bank but a huge data bank of information could be the wealthiest, or most powerful, entity in the country. In theory, it might be possible to quantify the value of their information in monetary terms, but they never actually convert the information into dollars or pesos. Why do they need dollars, if they can get what they want with information?
This has far-reaching implications for taxation. Taxes aim to redistribute wealth. They take a cut from the wealthiest individuals and corporations, in order to provide for everyone. However, a tax system that knows how to tax only money will soon become outdated as many transactions no longer involve money. In a data-based economy, where value is stored as data rather than as dollars, taxing only money distorts the economic and political picture. Some of the wealthiest entities in the country may pay zero taxes, because their wealth consists of petabits of data rather than billions of dollars.”
Source: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“For the sake of wealth there're 7 types of commerce: perfume trade, moneylending, cow related trade & activities, serving known customers (because he wouldn't use foul language), false pricing of products (buying at less & selling at higher prices), underweighing, importing.
Of all saleable products, perfume trade is the best, which is incomparable to gold etc; and which can be sold for 100 times its cost”
Source: Panchatantra
“and I really hope no white person ever has cause
to write about me
because they never understand
Black love is Black wealth and they’ll
probably talk about my hard childhood
and never understand that
all the while I was quite happy”
Source: Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement
“Person 1: Do you know how America's class system works?
Person 2: America has a class system?
Person 1: Yes, that's how it works.”
Source: Limitarianism The Case Against Extreme Wealth, The Psychology of Management & Get Sh*t Done 3 Books Collection Set
“Luxury is not about owning more, it’s about owning wisely where lifestyle and investment meet.”
“It's pointless being the richest person in the cemetery.”
“wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor
but a mixture of both attains the height of happiness”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“Blessed are the wealthy, for theirs is the kingdom of influence and abundance.”
Source: Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in Psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, the daemonic, and Resistance