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06 Apr 2012, 9:53 am

What do you think of when someone mentions wealth? Do you think of endless dollar bills on top of endless piles of dollar bills, or a much different kind of wealth?

What is "real" wealth? Is it possessing the most money, or being "rich" as a person, regardless of how much money one possesses?

Just as a personal opinion, I'd side with the latter. Money is meaningless from a philosophical standpoint, and can never buy happiness.

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06 Apr 2012, 10:14 am

Hmm real wealth, screw money first off...........but knowledge, the kind most humans can not even comprehend, that is where it exists.

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06 Apr 2012, 11:11 am

Money only has value at this point in our development. Thousands of years ago money meant nothing. If rescources dissapeared tomorrow then money would have no value at all.

Wealth can be many things. Some people say wealth comes from having lots of friends who care about you. I see wealth as having a life that I am content with.

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06 Apr 2012, 11:55 am

Robdemanc wrote:

If resources disappeared tomorrow we would all die within about 3 weeks. Secondly, "money" came about because it was easier and more practical than bartering. I suggest that everyone in this thread read up on the history of currency.

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06 Apr 2012, 1:36 pm

TM wrote:

Robdemanc wrote:

I think we all know why money came about. What I say is correct. If there was nothing to barter then what value would money have? It would be pointless having money if there were no resources. But because we do have resources and we use money to facilitate the exchange of resources, then money is said to have value.

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06 Apr 2012, 2:04 pm

TM wrote:

Robdemanc wrote:

Yahhh!

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06 Apr 2012, 2:44 pm

AudaciousLarue wrote:

Wealth can be monetary, tangible or intangible Money is only worth what it can buy. Material wealth can have utility value independent of what it can fetch in the market place. Intangible wealth can consist of beauty, reputation, talent and such like abstract things.

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06 Apr 2012, 3:05 pm

Real wealth is resources.

If nuclear war happens tomorrow, stacks upon stacks of bills won't get you anything. But food, water, and arms will.

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06 Apr 2012, 3:53 pm

abacacus wrote:

Real wealth is resources.

If nuclear war happens tomorrow, stacks upon stacks of bills won't get you anything. But food, water, and arms will.

Those are good for barter but bottle caps are the currency in post-apocalypticia. At least the one I was born in 183 years from now

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06 Apr 2012, 3:57 pm

Cats. Count your wealth in cats.

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06 Apr 2012, 4:00 pm

shrox wrote:

Cats. Count your wealth in cats.

Cats make a poor meal though

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06 Apr 2012, 4:03 pm

money can buy a ton of happiness, dunno what people are talking about when they say it doesn't lol

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06 Apr 2012, 4:29 pm

Vigilans wrote:

abacacus wrote:

Real wealth is resources.

If nuclear war happens tomorrow, stacks upon stacks of bills won't get you anything. But food, water, and arms will.

Those are good for barter but bottle caps are the currency in post-apocalypticia. At least the one I was born in 183 years from now

Barter? Whose bartering anything? :p

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06 Apr 2012, 10:16 pm

If the govt. wanted to take everything I worked for and give it to someone else, they'd have a hell of a time taking the years of exercising and eating right, the basic medical know how, and my ability to keep the people around me amused.

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07 Apr 2012, 3:38 am

I think in terms of public wealth. The level of household technology, public education, infrastructure, clean water, fresh produce all year round, things like that. It is the best measuring stick for the wealth of a country, imho.

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07 Apr 2012, 3:38 am

I think in terms of public wealth. The level of household technology, public education, infrastructure, sanitation, clean water, access to affordable fresh produce, quality of health care, things like that. This is the best measuring stick for the wealth of a country, imho.

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