r366-c010
私が金銭から得たいと思うものは安心して楽しめる余暇である。ところが典型的な現代人が金で手に入れたがっているものはもっと金を稼ぐことであり,なんのためかといえば人に見せびらかし,豪勢さをほこり,これまで対等であった人たちを追い越すことである。
The thing that I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals. The social scale in America is indefinite and continually fluctuating. Consequently all the snobbish emotions become more restless than they are where the social order is fixed, .
From: The Conquest of Happiness, 1930, chap.3:Competition
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