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RE: Facts About Consolidation of Corporate Power - Wealth Inequality And Its Negative Impact On Society
"200k per year has no noticeable effect on a person happiness with life anyway"
If a person grows his pocket book, but not his brain, ambitions or philosophy of life, then he is without a doubt doomed to be miserable. Money itself is an important ingredient, valueable property is a tool, but having lots of any specific currency does not make a good, happy, person.
I agree. What's in your head is important. Acquisition of something, obviously has no impact on psychological or intellectual betterment.
Rand - and this is not at all to suggest there were not issues with her or some of her ideas - used to call the attempt to become happy on the accumulation of money alone "an attempt to fake reality".
Amongst other things, she wrote the following:
"Self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. It cannot be replaced by one’s power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe."
Throughout her writing she points out over and over that happinnes comes from purposefull thought and action. From the achievement of correctly identified values.