A rich man is not he who has the most but he who needs the least.

– Ante Vukušić, the meteorologist on Zavižan

More and more and then some is still a feature of that harsh early capitalism that, some 400 years ago, turned England into the first democracy and industrial world power. As such, it might have survived for a generation or two, but, shortly after the first wave, the greed had to be stabilized and diverted into other channels.