[FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

[Frank Wimberly]

LOL, as they say.  My dad never said that to me but he gave me the
equivalent "look".

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 3:05 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it might be wise to couch this within a larger discussion of
> private property and ownership, in general. Libertarians seem to think that
> private ownership of property facilitates good stewardship of that
> property. The tragedy of the commons argues that's not the case because the
> scope of ownership is ambiguous.
>
> That wealth that is accumulated is, at least in negligible part,
> *everyone's* property. So not only is Bezos not Bezos. But Bezos' property
> is not Bezos' property ... or as some parents are fond of saying "I brought
> you into this world. I can take you out."
>
>
> On 3/12/21 12:31 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> > Tangenting off of the Great Man discussion, I would like to solicit a
> > discussion on  "What is Wealth for".  I believe we have attended to this
> > on the side many times (I remember a vFriam where it was declared that
> > "Billionaires are Assholes, but Millionaires aren't (necessarily)"?
> >
> > Each of our Great (Wo)Men on the snark/not-snark list share one thing in
> > common, Wealth.   I'd be interested to hear others riff a little more on
> > their taxonomies of "what is Wealth for?"
>
>
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