People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment or satisfaction, then clearly there's a moral failing in the world in which we live.
People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.