| This question <8|1> overall <8|10> Hans: <4|12>. |
| Question 4: Can one say that happiness is the only true wealth? |
| [9] Hans: One cannot even say it! RedHead said in [1] that happiness is indeed the only true wealth, while JohnGalt said in [8] that it isn't. Who is right? Please look at my 1999 answer [1999SP:12], which is still the best answer to Question 4 I could come up with. |
| One more unrelated comment on JohnGalt's [8]. He writes: |
| A commodity as defined in an article on marxists.org is “anything necessary, useful or pleasant in life,” an object of human wants, a means of existence in the widest sense of the term. |
| This is not the full definition of the commodity. Every commodity is such a use-value, but not every use-value is a commodity. The definition of commodity as Marx uses it is: a commodity is something produced for sale or exchange. |
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