¶ Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"The big problems that come out are really not being put on the books, because society was not really thinking in big enough ways-- not realizing. Pretty much one-waying. There’s a fairy godmother operating here and it’s not really being put on the books. Society is going to be kidding itself a whole lot.
"I’ve had a number of big audiences in university lecture series; and I’ve said, ‘I’m sure everybody in this room has a little different idea of what wealth is. And I’m going to ask if anybody in this room will contradict me in this audience if I say that no matter how much you have of it, no matter what you think it is, but how much you have of what you think as wealth, will you all agree with me that you can’t alter one iota of yesterday?’ It wouldn’t do you any good. They agreed. So then I said, what ever it is, it is irreversible. It’s something to be articulated now-- or forwardly
"When we ant to do our thinking about what is wealth, I’ve eliminated a lot of things I don’t have to think about any more.
“Now I’m going to have a man we’ll call a millionaire, a billionaire. And he has all his check books and all his stock”
¶ Citations
- RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (pp.6-7), New York, 13 Mar’74
