We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth
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We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth
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Rousseau’s argument hung on a thesis about wealth: that wealth does not involve having many things. It involves having what we long for. Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we seek something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as
... See more“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
– Epictetus
If you think like most, “wealth” is instinctively defined by lavish luxury lifestyles. The economic engines behind industrialized nations have us believing that wealth comes from what we wear, eat, drink, drive, and do.