Over the years, Rousseau also published a piece of work which addressed private property. He associates property with the term armour-propre which means vanity, and that it acts as both a curse and a cure for the pain it has brought upon mankind. The theory gives rise to zero-sum competitions where people aspire to be the best. Rousseau argues that no one wins these competitions because everyone’s morality has become corrupted. The winner becomes vain while the losers remain spiteful and envious. Scholars have come to agree with Rousseau’s concept oh human emotions and state that armour-propre are a necessary condition for many positive aspects such as civic virtue. They believe that Rousseau’s social philosophy has shed some light on how we all experience