The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

music. We nowadays may disagree with his taste,
but it was at least genuine. The rich man of the
present day tends to be of quite a different type. He
never reads. If he is creating a picture gallery with
a view to enhancing his fame, he relies upon
experts to choose his pictures; the pleasure that he
derives from them is not the pleasure of looking at
them, but the pleasure of preventing some other
rich man from having them. In regard to music, if
he happens to be a Jew, he may have genuine
appreciation; if not, he will be as uncultivated as
he is in regard to the other arts. The result of all
this is that he does not know what to do with
leisure. As he gets richer and richer it become
easier and easier to make money, until at last five
minutes a day will bring him more than he knows
how to spend. The poor man is thus left at a loose
end as a result of his success. This must inevitably
be the case so long as success itself is represented
as the purpose of life. Unless a man has been taught
what to do with success after getting it, the
achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey
to boredom.