My 20-month old son Noah just climbed on my lap, pointed to the monitor and said "A." Then he pointed to a soda can and said "Not A."
He repeated this a few times. That this was for my benefit was made clear by the expression on his face. When he was satisfied I understood, he lept off my lap and happily walked away.
"The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theater, go dancing, go drinking, think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save and the greater will become that treasure which neither moths nor maggots can consume — your capital. The less you are, the less you give expression to your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life ... So all passions and all activity are submerged in greed."
~Karl Marx, Notebooks, 1844
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