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June 15, 2005
Wealth without envy
The blog Chicago Boyz has an article on a concept wealth without envy. He offers up a concept of wealth similar to the one that I've always enjoyed, that wealth should be an absolute rather than relative measure. We should think about our wealth in terms of what we can buy, rent and use, not what share of society's pie we can get. All the kings wealth couldn't buy him antibiotics, and Washington, though President of the United States, could not keep his teeth. You and I have medicine, food storage, transpiration and other riches unavailable just a few centuries (and sometimes decades) before.
Posted by OneEyedMan at June 15, 2005 11:20 AM
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