“To give the pauper the sum he won’t forget, cannot occur. He will forget it. If you have given it to him, you just might turn your back to move on with your day. Give the homeless pauper the entire world’s wealth to build a kingdom, and perhaps soon the king, once a pauper, for their kingdom will become a treasure hunter. They might seek out the true treasure, being the one who allowed their kingdom to be built. But, perhaps that person, that treasure, has disappeared. With their disappearance, all the wealth that was spent to build a kingdom is also gone. Both giver and wealth is at the same level. Just a thing made to vanish. There is nothing left to this, besides emptiness.”
– Modern Romanticism