Wealth is making $100 more than your wife's sister's husband, according to
H.L. Mencken. I think he's on to something there.
To me, the basic definition is that it is a measure of well-being. It has
many dimensions.
Nick
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At 12:01 PM Thursday 12/11/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
Wealth is making $100 more than your wife's sister's husband, according to
H.L. Mencken.
I think others have suggested that it's making more than your wife
can spend . . .
Don't Shoot The Messenger Maru
. . . ronn! :)
Unimaginable wealth is a child finding a real
silver dollar.
Actual wealth is never picking up a dropped quarter.
Financial stability is looking at the dime as you think
of your two choices.
Absolute poverty is remembering where the hole
in your trousers is as you bend at the knees to pick
Wealth can be defined in evolutionary terms. Whatever enhances your health,
your security, your status or your power in the group is wealth. In other
words -- in a state of nature -- anything the possession of which improves your
reproductive fitness. That is the ultimate basis of the
Dan M wrote:
After the discussion about money as a social construct, it occurred to me
that that there is something more fundamental underlying this. It is
whether wealth is concrete or just an abstract concept.
One way to ask it is whether the world is actually wealthier than it was 100
