What is More

• What is "More"?

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  Alva Gosson in brief answer it depends only upon what we have now... which means that we will always be seeking more, and once we find it we will always feel we have less. This is the force that leads into the brick wall of suffering.

  28 minutes ago · Like

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  Alva Gosson So we want "more" fish, but sadly it will mean "less" fish. That is the problem.

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  Alva Gosson A friend who was very happy with his new house a few years ago said recently he needed a bigger house. Its a systemic problem, the solution goes to the root of human life and our understanding of existence itself. "More" government, or "less" government, "more" policy or "less" policy: its all framed within the very problem itself. I read all this btw its freely available and people have been talking about it and living it for millennia, its just unfashionable since Plato (at least) onwards.

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  Alva Gosson I could go on (as you know ;-): here's the question that puzzled me - who is richer the starving man who finds a half eaten burger in the bin, or the man who ate that burger in the first place? To me (after some considerable thought) it's clearly the starving man, while the other man didn't even finish the burger so it meant very little to him. Now economics is the science of creating more wealth... clearly it's a complete jumble of rubbish! I believe that a new fashion in politics is waking up to this "Science of Happiness" but maybe too late for the oceans and the forest and the land anyway.
  Another question that puzzled me for much longer. Is the person in a concentration camp waiting to die in actual poverty? Well we are all waiting to die so we can remove that from the equation. I believe that an identical structure of wealth and poverty would develop here just much as anywhere with people having better and worse bunks, and more or less sleep, and better or worse jobs etc.