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galen  ·  3475 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How much is enough?

    It's not a question of enough, pal, it's a zero-sum game. Somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. Like magic. This painting here? I bought it ten years ago for sixty thousand dollars. I could sell it today for six hundred. The illusion has become real, and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it. Capitalism at its finest.

Posted the whole quotation because I love it so much, but the first two sentences pretty much sum up my answer to your question. There is no 'enough'.