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Let us ask ourselves some fundamental questions regarding the meaning of wealth. The biggest question we can formulate proposes that ‘no matter what it may be or how we define it, will you agree that wealth cannot alter one iota of yesterday’? The answer is always that we agree to the proposition.
We discover that whatever wealth is, it has an irreversible direction of articulation. We next note that if a reportedly very wealthy man is in a shipwreck in midocean and has all his checkbooks with him for all the monies he has on deposit in the bank plus all his stocks and bonds and physical property deeds-- and there are no physical means of saving himself from drowning-- that his wealth becomes meaningless to him. If he had all of his assumed-to-be-wealth with him in gold coins, he would only sink faster. If, however, he knew how and did convert physical components present in the disaster environment into energy-mastering tools that could keep him from drowning and from perishing from cold and sharks while also propelling safely to land, might we not logically designate wealth as the means of sustaining forward life and the magnitude of the wealth in terms of how many forward days of healthy metabolic regeneration have been provided for in
