All these "great" novels about depression, nihilism, struggle, and virtues of simple life were written by rich...

>all these "great" novels about depression, nihilism, struggle, and virtues of simple life were written by rich, overpriviledged aristocrats who never had a want in life

Sometimes a lack of motivation and will to live are directly caused by overabundance. Either that or it was only the aristocrats who could properly circulate a novel.

Examples?

Only when the base stratum of human need is taken care of, thereby attenuating the survivalist urge, can man in idleness see the dead end of the tunnel far off.

There's an easy 15 year old's platitude for you

>Sometimes a lack of motivation and will to live are directly caused by overabundance.

Infinite Jest it is then.

>Dostoyevsky, a prisoner with a gambling addiction, is a privileged aristocrat

Stop being silly user

Nearly the entirety of Tolstoy's oeuvre.

Why would anyone read that heretic?

Because he is literally the greatest writer of all time

Yeah, that famous nihilist, Tolstoy.

Are you referring to the gospels in brief? Because if so, I agree wholeheartedly.

*tips*

*dibs*

he alright

Franz Kafka had it rough.

All greeks
All romans
All englishmen
Entirely all ruskies

Yeah didn't Hegel say something similar to this?

Dosty had a pretty hard life considering desu

This

Yeah, except he took 3 pages to say it

really nigger?
being rich that time wasn't that comforting as it is today
also, of course they wrote these books, the plebs couldn't write or read

this is more true now, upper class writers writing about whatever struggle, than it was in the past

karl marx

Rich, aristocratic people are generally the perfect people to understand depression and nihilism.

They've reached what everyone says is the pinnacle of human existence, and they know how empty and lonely it is.

While obviously he wasn't starving, Hegel wasn't rich and wrote the Phenomenlogy on the side while struggling as a private teacher, he didn't even have a professorship. Which boggles my fucking mind. Just more proof that Hegel was a wizard.

Marx wasn't rich and frequently ran into money issues, he could only carry on writing because he got money from Engels (since this is common knowledge, I guess you're trolling though)

>living in your friends home and accepting their money
He was born middle-class and never worked an industrial job in his life.

Not debating that, but OP called them rich aristrocats which never struggled in any way financially, which definitely doesn't apply to Marx

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