[FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

[Pieter Steenekamp]

Let me try a definition of wealth:

Wealth is that what makes you happy.

Using this definition we get the following:

For the former Bhutan it could have been inner peace (or whatever made him
Happy, I don't understand his culture).
For Bill Gates it could be spending his billions to make the world a
better place.
For Nick it could be to have the freedom to carry on his love affair with
thinking.
For the person living on the boundary of absolute poverty it could be
enough money not to starve.

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 06:01, Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is the definition of wealth having a lot of whatever the culture values?
> (I'm late meeting Nick's challenge to me.)  The former Bhutan (it's
> changing drastically and rapidly) valued Happiness.  It's why their happy
> people thought they were wealthy, despite being one of the world's least
> "developed" country. (GDP is now rising with outside development of its
> natural resources).
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:31 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> 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?"
>>
>> - Steve
>>
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