If accumulation is important for becoming more at what point do we become to much?

Answer 1

To answer this one must look at the reason why we accumulate and the purpose of accumulation. We accumulate for two reasons. One, so that we might have a comfortable and enjoyable life to , if possible , pass it on to our offspring. Two, so that we can be admire by other human beings and take pride in our accomplishments.
On the first instances accumulation can get too much when we have so much that we are constantly worried about it and consequently are not happy(something we set out to do when we started our accumulation) and that others have so little that we cannot enjoy life with other people, one of the supreme requisits of happiness. We may alienate other people or become too busy to live. We only function to serve our accumulation. There is an old story in Marcus Aurelius's meditations which has an old joke about a man having so many goods he has no room to relieve himself. Marcus says that if you cultivate the virtues then you are amazed at this because you regard goods as the virtues. How can you have too many virtues. Although you can be so up yourself that it is time to step back and take a look. If however you are one of the vulgar, as Epictisus would call you, then you would get the joke because you would have so many good and not enough room to relieve youself. At this concept one can have so many goods that one because of responsibility and worry and human alienation would have no room to LIVE.
You would either have to loose some or spend too much time(a finite quality in life) serving the needs of your accumulation, instead of them serving yours.
On the second instance one can accumulate so much that one, one alienates most or all people and thus cannot carry on fruitful and meaningful relationships. Something that can make one very unhappy if unable to . On the other hand one can have so much status and pride that it keeps you from people(like pharoah), enslaves you to your position, puffs your pride up so much that people can't stand you and makes you miss out on so much of life because you are a slave to your accumulations and you are taken over by them and so loose the conceptions to have life and have the attitude that mitigates against it.
You see the important thing is WHY. If we fulfill the WHY we accumulate and keep the reason in perspective then we can never have too much. However the moment we loose sight of the WHY and get engulfed in the WHAT- we loose sight of the purpose, our lives and our dignity and destiny of being human.
And after all- isn't the important thing on our death bed is wheather we have done right, left an good legacy and lived the life that we have been given. If you had a vigitillion dollars(a one followed by 63 noughts) and an angel came down and offered you just 20 years more of life, how much would you be prepared to pay for it. All of your fortune and much much more besides. Which shows what is really important in life and the comparitive values between the life which we are given and only once and the relationships with other people and a bunch of mindless, lifeless and inate objects. One must keep true perspective in mind.

Answer 2

If absolute power corrupts absolutely
then
absolute consumption should consume absolutely
correct?

You accumulate junk because you do not know the real meaning of life and need substitutes to fill the void. My opinion on why consumerism and competitiveness and capitalism is destructive.

Answer 3

The point of over-accumulation, of course.

Answer 4

In the commercially-driven world, success is measured by how much of the "right" things one has. One has too much when tastes change, or if you have more than the people judging you. The advertising companies would have you believe that there is no such thing as too much, and you should always strive for more.

Answer 5

Less is More....until More becomes Less. It will be obvious when that line gets crossed. Use your own judgment for when you have reached your S.A.B.L.E. {Supply Abundantany Beyond Life Span}

Answer 6

it is err that accumulation is important for becoming more.
and we cannot become too much if we truly know our center.

Answer 7

when the point of accumulation overwhelms us.

Answer 8

Point! To much? when were not able to except life,in general..Bye not showing up for our once a week therapy...

Answer 9

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Answer 10

we reach much just before we reach too much