How much land does a man need?

We know Leo Tolstoy’s beautiful short story How much land does a man need? This is the story of a man who was greedy and was never satisfied with what he had. He craved more and finally died due to his greed. The story goes like this. A man named Pahom was a small landowner and a peasant. But he was ambitious. His ambition drove him to acquire more land to increase his prosperity. Yet despite his growing fortune, he remained dissatisfied. He came to know about a far-off place where land was available cheaply. The Bashkris, a tribal group, were willing to sell their land to anyone willing to buy, but at a fixed rate. And their rate was only 1000 rubles a day! The rate the Bashkris offered to Pahom to buy their land confused Pahom. How can somebody sell lands with the unit of a day instead of acres? It conspired that the Bashkris would sell land to Pahom for one thousand rubble, all the land he could walk in a day. The day starts at dawn when the Sun rises in the east and ends when the Sun sets in the West. If Pahom cannot return to the spot he started his walk from, when the Sun sets, his thousand rubble would be confiscated. Otherwise, he could buy all the land at 1000 rubble that he can cover, walking during the day. He started walking and walked the whole day. But he must return to the place from where he began his journey. <a href="https://barun-ray.medium.com/how-much-land-does-a-man-need-3fc30d66af31">Website</a>