There is great confusion as to how we distinguish needs from desires. The list of what we call “needs” today is certainly much longer than the list was in 1900, which in turn was much longer than the list at the time of Christ. If the list expands each year, is this an expansion God approves of? “The cultivation and expansion of needs is … the antithesis of freedom,” teaches economist E. F. Schumacher. “Every increase of needs tends to increase one’s dependence on outside forces over which one cannot have control.”
Margin, (loc 2303f)
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