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/^t/Let us start the argument at the level of motivation. One of the questions, one has to ask considering the need for domination among people, is the following: what do you need it for? Is it for prestige, self-esteem or, putting it in a different light, for wealth? The latter reason seems to be quite obvious, one may try to justify a person connecting the power with making money. Yet, the other two reasons pose a problem with understanding the motivation. It is even worse, when we come across a situation in which a man has no true grounds to desire any authority. Kurtz, apparently, aspired to an economical success, what is more, achieved it. In reality he lived in, such a kind of behaviour was perfectly correct. The ideology of colonial expansion demanded decisiveness, severity towards the ruled and making profit, sometimes at all costs.