| This question <9|9> overall <10|12> Hans: <8|14>. |
| Question 2: Can one say that happiness is the only true wealth? |
| [11] Hans: Health and happiness. Good health is certainly part of an individual's or society's wealth, but it is not “material” wealth in the sense of being embedded in a material object that can be taken to the market. It is embedded in people. In a commodity society this kind of wealth does not get the attention it deserves. This is not an “oversimplification” on the part of Marx, as WPratt suggests in [9], but a structural flaw of commodity economies. |
| Happiness, on the other hand, is not part of wealth. There is a lot of discussion about this question in the archives, and I recommend [1999SP:12]. |
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