Originally Posted by tore

That's an extremely narrow perspective.

All the money you earn already comes from society - just like you do, your family and friends, the economy where your money comes from, the possibilities that let you have a job where you actually have an income. Yes, you worked for it, but you weren't the only one. Other people have contributed to creating that world in which that paycheck exists - your family, your teachers, your co-workers, the guy who drives your buss to work. If their lives become a little more crappy, yours probably will too.

You can detach yourself from society if you like - go live alone on an island or in a forest somewhere - and then see how much your money's worth. Which is probably not much more than as kindling for a fire.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.