Kaffi Hljómalind

...so rich people, who inherit ancestral properties or misappropriate plenty of properties through shady means,or with or without capital become the owners of huge properties by the application of their intellect, also forget that, like light, air and water, every mundane thing is the common heritage of every creature - not a single item belongs to any particular individual or is their personal property. Natures resources are meant for the use of all. No one has any individual right or lease on them. If anyone says: "Just as othes earn by dint of manual labour and provide themselves with food and clothings, I too put in my intellectual labour to achieve the same ends. Then why should I also not be counted as a laborious person?" In reply I will only say this: that by dint of intellect you may grab as much as you like of the unfathomable resources that have neither beginning nor end, but exist only in the domain of intellect and imagination. Nobody will have anything to say against it. But the earthly resources such as houses, land, food, clothing and money etc. being limited, if you grab them by dint of your intellect, will it not be depriving hundreds of thousends of people of their bare necessities? You may certainly earn by dint of your intellect, but that earning should be only that which is necessary for the up-keep of your family and sufficient for contingencies to see you through bad weather, not a penny more.

It must always be remembered that the value of money is in its use. If more money is accumulated than is necessary, it becomes valueless for want of use.

P.R Sarkar. Prout in a nutshell part 1