Throughout modern times, numerous projects for social, economic and political change have been formulated and attempted to create a more just society, or a more humane civilization. Such attempts have reached certain interesting levels of development, they are precious as testimony to the possibility of another economy and another politics, ethically superior to the capitalist and statist one. But so far they have not been able to convince that they are also more efficient from the point of view of satisfying individual and collective human needs, or that they are sufficiently realistic in terms of their viability and permanence over time. In fact, such projects have not managed to prevail or consolidate at a sufficiently general level to convince them of their real advantages and convenience for all.
This allows us to understand something very important in relation to development, because it is only after reaching a certain level that autonomy becomes possible. If you have never read a book you need to be taught to read, everything comes from outside, the motivation to read, the learning itself, the incentive. But when you read and become a reader, no one has to tell you to read anymore, because by yourself you look for books, you need to read. And not only does he need to read, but he begins to write and reads himself, and no longer expects the story, the narration or the elaboration of thought from another, but creates them, invents his own stories and writes them for others. They are poverty, insecurity, lack of capabilities, poverty of relationships, absence of convictions, which make "wealth" necessary, understood as an abundance of things. In such a way that in human development, when a certain degree is reached we become more self-sufficient, we become less in need of external goods and services. If someone has a good personal development, broad, a wealth of personality, it is very likely that he needs fewer articles, few products: he does not need to spend in the supermarket or in stores or buying things, because he develops by himself. Fewer goods and services are enough for him, not because he has quenched his needs (in a Buddhist sense), but because he develops himself, unfolds his personality, and emphasizes those dimensions in which he is capable of self-generating those projects and those satisfaction satisfaction. the needs. Likewise, whoever has made a great display of the spiritual dimension, or a scientist who has advanced more than all the rest, no longer has so much to continue reading the others, because they are things that he already knows: he only has to follow the same producing new knowledge.