Talk:Jacques Schnee/@comment-35434444-20191124084627/@comment-35434444-20191124215231

@ChishioKurin

That's just the thing. People like Jeff Bozos don't do it for the money. They don't really care about the value or even money as an abstraction.

Power, success, recognition, security -- whatever form it takes it's the same thing: beating the game of life.

A person who genuinely makes money for its own sake -- as an art -- can be satisfied. Because what he's doing isn't labour but play and is satisfied from the first moment to the last.

But a man trying to get one up on the universe can never be content. Thus even after he outstrips all others, he feels like a pauper. This is what we really mean when he's, "just doing it for the money," when ironically the tycoon   has roughly the same relationship to the money he shovels into his account that a humble miner has to the earth he shovels out of the ground: so inundated with it that he hardly notices it; moves it around with great energy but only to get it out of the way as efficiently as possible.

A person who make money for its own sake doesn't need to horde it because there will always be more as yet unmade for him to produce. He is even grateful when he's in a deficit because it gives him a pretext to use his talents again. Money only exists in the spending. It isn't a commodity it's a process. So the money maker delights in passing it around.

But Jeff Bozos has never seen a Penny in his life, and thus he scrounges and scrounges for what already lines his pockets like all the stars of the Milky Way.

Wealth has a limit. A human being can only take advantage of so much value in a given time. But an abstract meant to conquer the frailty of the human condition is infinite and is thus a futile pursuit.

Jacques cannot ensure the future of his company because it never arrives. Tomorrow never comes.

If Jacques literally only wants money, how come he has portraits of Whitley around the manor and on his desk? Surely in financial terms raising him can't be anything but a burden   but he does it anyway.