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Wealth is–
- Health above all
- Clean food, air, and water
- Freedom from serious mental defects
- Freedom itself, the pursuit of happiness
- The ability to accept the fact that you deserve happiness
- Time — enough — to enjoy the other elements of wealth
- Some camaraderie with fellow humans and animals, a team spirit
- Enough education to understand the world we live in
- Ability to avoid mind numbing propaganda or at least deflect it
- Enough physical assets, including money, that one is not tempted too much, too help one live a moral life
- Flexibility in all meanings (hint - stretch)
- Some Love (and sex)
- Being a net positive to our Mother Earth
You could probably throw some more mamby-pamby shit in there, but I'll resist getting too politically correct
Any other ideas?
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A reasonable enough feeling of safety and security
This reminds me a little of 'Maslow's hierarchy of needs';
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Great way to redefine the concept of wealth - in terms of general satisfaction of human necessity rather than the more commonly referenced numbers on bank statements and status symbols, or the measurement of the power of humans to control and exploit each other.
Anon.
cool, proud to have "co-discovered" this hierarchy. Others have suggested "the ability to create" and I responded that might be quite individual, others may have no need "to create". But it does look like my list is missing something to cover "personal fulfillment" or "self actualization" and Maslow put it, the problem with his term is that it totally needs to be defined and is by no means obvious, even to a scholar.
Deletebut....Mahalo!