When we mention these problems here, it is not in order to criticise the person behind the "rich man". Such a criticism would be inappropriate, since the "rich man", just as little as the "poor man", cannot be different today from what he is. The condition of both is the expression of a step or stage on the road forward, a step that everyone has to climb in order to be able to progress. But each of the two steps shows us a particular type of human being. In the business magnate we see what people generally perceive as the "great" and "rich man", about whom Christ said that getting into the "kingdom of heaven" would be just as impossible as it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. And in the other type (I am thinking of the inventor or artist who is exploited by a magnate and therefore has to live in poverty), we see the genius who gives his rich gift to humanity, even when it gives him only a life of hunger in hardship and suffering. In the first type we have thus a being that has become "great" in the eyes of many people and who is therefore "honoured" and "esteemed". His large palace, expensive cars, servants and chauffeurs, his position on the stock exchange and his nationwide business and so on make him an obvious candidate for being regarded as one of society's "best" citizens. And if he gives society just a few per cent of his fantastic surplus in the form of donations to art and science, he may be decorated with the highest honour of the state or nation, thus opening even more doors of snobbery for him and causing his imagination to swell at the thought of what a powerful, "superhuman" he actually is, when compared to his fellow beings.