Look back for vision, not nostalgia. William Morris had it about right when he asked the question: What is wealth?:
"Wealth is what Nature gives us and what a reasonable man can make out of the gifts of Nature for his reasonable use. The sunlight, the fresh air, the unspoiled face of the earth, food, raiment and housing necessary and decent, the storing up of knowledge of all kinds, and the power of disseminating it, means of free communications between man and man, works of art, the beauty which man creates when he is most a man, most aspiring and thoughtful, – all thing which serve the pleasure of people, free, manly, and uncorrupted. This is wealth."
William Morris “Useful Work Versus Useles Toil” quoted in ‘Communitarian Luxury“ (Kristin Ross, 2015, Verso, p. 142)
Look back for vision, not nostalgia. William Morris had it about right when he asked the question: What is wealth?:
"Wealth is what Nature gives us and what a reasonable man can make out of the gifts of Nature for his reasonable use. The sunlight, the fresh air, the unspoiled face of the earth, food, raiment and housing necessary and decent, the storing up of knowledge of all kinds, and the power of disseminating it, means of free communications between man and man, works of art, the beauty which man creates when he is most a man, most aspiring and thoughtful, – all thing which serve the pleasure of people, free, manly, and uncorrupted. This is wealth."
William Morris “Useful Work Versus Useles Toil” quoted in ‘Communitarian Luxury“ (Kristin Ross, 2015, Verso, p. 142)
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