Spendthrift
In the case of a spendthrift, such a person wastes their
money ending up in misery.
Miser
In the case of a miser, such a person works long and hard and
saves as much as possible, and naturally by cause and effect acquires a good
pile of money. They too waste and end up in misery.
Waste and Misery
Both the spendthrift and miser up in physical misery. The spendthrift
by having spent money on luxuries and fleeting whims and the miser by having
saved and not spent.
Both the spendthrift and miser end up wasting. The
spendthrift by having spent money frivolously, and the miser by wasting life
and energy working. Often misers die with that money still in their bank and it goes to the state or to some distant relative that spends it like a spendthrift.
The spendthrift pleases the senses and the emotions in
fulfilling whims, and the miser pleases the senses seeing the numbers in one’s
account grow and the emotion having. Both feel lacking, the miser feels lack
and hence falls into greed of wanting more because the miser never has enough and
the spendthrift feels empty and so spends to fill the void but feels unhappy
because it can never be filled by buying things, just as the void in the miser
can never be filled with money.
Poverty Both
Both end in spiritual poverty.
End (1158).
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