¶ Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"I want to stress very much the things that Gerard Field talked about: wealth… Wealth is–as far as I am concerned–the extent to which human beings have discovered principles that are operating in our Universe and the extent they use the experiences that come before us and the principles that we have learned (of leverage-- or whatever it may be), the extent to which we have organized our life, our environment, to take care of how many lives for how many days-- the capability to protect it, accommodate it, to feed it-- that is wealth.
“We are now in a great deal of confusion in our Western world by what has been done by the digits with which we recorded the wealth and tried to give the people producing it a chance to save it. The gains of that wealth have been plagues with interest charges–lending that wealth out to others when people didn’t know whom it was being lent to… Then there’s the money game, where the money is really very remote from the wealth. When we consider that this is so we can begin to look at our cities in a little different kind of a way. We have all kinds of very important resources available when we begin to resurvey the accounting system we are using on our planet.”
