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Wastefulness leads to greed, and greed causes a lack of satisfaction. And the lack of satisfaction breaks one’s desire to strive and to work, and drives one to “complaining” instead of “gratitude,” and throws man into laziness, such that he ignores the small amount of licit and permissible wealth available to him and seeks out illicit wealth that does not involve hard work or difficulty, and in order to get it he sacrifices his dignity and perhaps even his honour.
A lack of frugality, which causes wastefulness, “increases” consumers and “reduces” producers, such that all have their eye on the government’s door, so that the industry, trade and agriculture upon which human social life stands dwindle, and the people decline and become backward and poor.