“The average worker’s wealth does not lie in how many pounds he has in his bank account or how many dollars he’s bought war savings bonds with or something like that. This is all very well, very practical, all that sort of thing. But his actual wealth is his potentiality for getting work done.
“And of course this means his potentiality for getting along with his fellow man. That’s his wealth. He has thirty more years in which he can work, thirty more years in which he can earn, thirty more years in which he can associate with his fellows. It’s interesting, isn’t it? But that’s his wealth.
“You could add to his wealth and say a little bit more about it in saying his wealth was in how many friends he had. His wealth was in how decent his country was. His wealth lay in how much he trusted, or otherwise, the ideas which his society could generate. That’s real wealth. That’s livingness!”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture The Goodness of Man delivered on 22 October 1955. This can be found in the Lindsey Theatre lectures. Track 9.
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