Resentment targets wealth without visible function more than oppression itself

Evidence

Aesthetic contemplation, which is possible for any object and only especially easy for the beautiful, most thoroughly closes the gap between the self and the object. It allows as easy, effortless, and harmonious formation of the image of the object as if this image were determined only by the nature of the self. Hence the sense of liberation which accompanies an aesthetic mood; it is characterized by emancipation from the stuffy dull pressure of life, and the expansion of the self with joy and freedom into the objects whose reality would otherwise violate it. Such is the psychological tone of joy in the mere possession of money. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Functionless wealth cuts the social ties that make power tolerable; Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451

Related

• Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality (similarity 0.85)
• Money functions as magic, making desire immediately effective (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Functionless wealth cuts the social ties that make power tolerable #corroborates (0.92)
• Both aesthetic mood and money-possession liberate the self from resistant reality #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 451