You can’t take it with you, and, what’s more, you shouldn’t even try. You shouldn’t want to own things anyway. Property is theft, said Proudhon. The title of Erich Fromm’s To Have or to Be (1976) presents us with a choice, the same choice that Jesus spoke of when he said that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
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May 12, 2023
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You can’t take it with you, and, what’s more, you shouldn’t even try. You shouldn’t want to own things anyway. Property is theft, said Proudhon. The title of Erich Fromm’s To Have or to Be (1976) presents us with a choice, the same choice that Jesus spoke of when he said that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.