Personally I think that the acquisition of wealth is inherent to what it is to be alive, especially if you think about it in terms of increasing the practical capability to get things enacted in the world. Technological progress and building infrastructure is still that thing.
obviously the startrek quote is meaning currency though and there’s nothing I disagree with there but still.
wealth in this case meaning use-value, of which the acquisition is important to the basic maintenance of one’s own life. Whereas financial value or exchange value is an intermediary and could theoretically cease to be meaningful (think: robots produce all goods, exchange value of everything important is less than pennies)
Personally I think that the acquisition of wealth is inherent to what it is to be alive, especially if you think about it in terms of increasing the practical capability to get things enacted in the world. Technological progress and building infrastructure is still that thing.
obviously the startrek quote is meaning currency though and there’s nothing I disagree with there but still.
wealth in this case meaning use-value, of which the acquisition is important to the basic maintenance of one’s own life. Whereas financial value or exchange value is an intermediary and could theoretically cease to be meaningful (think: robots produce all goods, exchange value of everything important is less than pennies)
so what I said but in marxist