Wealth

1/ Wealth is a claim on other people's time There are a lot of theories on what money is, on what wealth is. Economists have written very long books on this. It is debt, it is the evolution of barter, it is an information system, etc, etc. All of these are true in their way

I have sometimes pondered the pivotal moment when money changes people forever. The answer is, without doubt, the acquisition of the private plane—it’s the moment when you leave the human race forever.