"'The well-being of a total community of human beings working together becomes greater the less the individual demands the products of her achievements for herself, that is, the more of these products she passes on to her fellow workers and the more her own needs are not satisfied out of her own achievements, but out of the achievements of others.' All the conditions within a total community of people which contradict this law must sooner or later produce misery and distress somewhere. - This law holds good for social life with absolute necessity and without any exceptions, just as a natural law holds good for a particular sphere of natural processes... In actual fact the law will be able to exist as it should only if a total community of people succeeds in creating conditions where no one ever can claim the fruits of his own work for himself, but where, if at all possible, these go entirely to the benefit of the community. And he in turn must be maintained by means of the work of his fellow human beings."
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