1323. All the true comforts and good things of life, which the individuals of the "upper class" alone use to dominate others with, have been called "luxuries". But in actual fact these phenomena are not, and can never be, "luxuries" for anyone who works hard in the service of society or of his neighbour. To the hard-working individual they cannot possibly be "luxuries" in the absolute sense but are a natural phenomena that he, and all other workers within society, have a right to, but which have been temporarily stolen from them by means of the "false business principle", after which their earnings are reduced by camouflaged "robbery". What then is "luxury"? Under the concept of "luxury" we find the things, the comforts that are not so strictly necessary for daily life that they constitute vital necessities. But as it is not life's intention that people should be denied access to enjoying the advantages of the comforts and perfect things that they themselves are able to create, neither can it be life's intention that it is "sinful" to avail oneself of "luxury". The use of "luxury" can absolutely only be contrary to law when it is promoted and used by "idlers" who do not do any useful work but who only sponge off life, who only live in order to enjoy "pleasant pastimes". For beings who do nothing but sponge off society, even the most vital necessities can be regarded almost as "luxuries". They constitute great amenities and comforts that the laws of the authorised "false business principle" exempt them from having to take the trouble to acquire. Indeed, what a "worker" or the public at large regards as "luxury" today will one day, in the fullness of time, become everyday, common, natural conveniences. Indeed, do we not even today make great use of things and objects as a matter of course that were unattainable "luxury" for our grandparents? "Luxuries" are thus not something "sinful", but merely the pinnacle of the benefits gradually developed by society. At first, these benefits are attainable only by the strongest beings in the social economy or those who constitute the most "well-armed" power from a financial point of view, which means, the tycoons of the "false business principle".
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