Dec 052010
You couldn’t make up this extract from a student’s essay a friend just sent me:
If the state allows one to free to earn more money he will do so regardless of others positions in society as human nature has a constant demand for more. This will inevitably lead to the notion of luxury goods, which is another step away from Hobbes’ “states of nature”
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