Lieber begehrt und im Uberfluss als uberflussig und in Not: Ein Beispiel. (With English summary.)

Satiation means that the marginal utility of income decreases. One might infer from this that satiation should imply a shorte r labor time of the relative rich. This paper shows that such a concl usion is false. To the contrary and, at first sight, paradoxically, i t is rather to be expected that satiation will lead to raising income claims instead. On the other hand, it may happen to the relative poo r (being near to some minimum aspiration level) that they end up with lower wages (and not with less work), if they reduce their aspiratio ns. Copyright 1987 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG