What is a hindrance to people's happiness?

For Today and Tomorrow

Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Tuesday, March 26, 2013:

 

Of foremost importance are the people—not celebrities, the powerful, the rich, scholars or others whom society deems great or praiseworthy. The purpose of all things must be the happiness of the people. Everything else should be but a means to that end. Those who fail to recognize this fundamental point and look down on the people and exploit them are thoroughly vile and contemptible; they are a hindrance to people's happiness.