What the English call “comfortable” is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)

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