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[00:01.47]Lesson 27
[00:03.79]Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
[00:13.45]What is the most important thing for a tramp?
[00:18.53]It has been said that everyone lives by selling something.
[00:23.16]In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge,
[00:28.12]philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comfort.
[00:35.20]Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money,
[00:40.50]it is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us.
[00:47.94]There are times when we would willingly give everything we possess to save our lives,
[00:53.46]yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service.
[01:00.53]The conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for
[01:05.27]in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop.
[01:09.07]Everyone has something to sell.
[01:12.77]Tramps seem to be the only exception to this general rule.
[01:18.05]Beggars almost sell themselves as human beings to arouse the pity of passers-by.
[01:24.27]But real tramps are not beggars.
[01:27.26]They have nothing to sell and require nothing from others.
[01:31.67]In seeking independence, they do not sacrifice their human dignity.