Acquiring Material Possessions

[JustLikeYou]

Well, efficient evolution along the negative path entails enslaving a population by their own free will. One powerful way to do this is to deceive them, and indirect systems like money are a means of doing this. I think the environment on Earth necessitates this kind of enslavement, though on planets less positively oriented, it is probably easier to brainwash the slave class without indirect methods like money. Plato's Republic actually offers just such a possibility.

What, then, is your interpretation of this comment about material possessions?