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000 camels, April 24, 2024.

If you had a mischief a spirit about you,

and you thought you detected a spirit of envy among

some of your North American companions, you might ask them at a nice restaurant over dinner say,

and with an innocent expression on your face, if they thought the government should confiscate half

the income of the top 1% in order to redistribute that money to the underprivileged.

The chances are pretty good that you might well get some takers, provided you were not raising the question

or did it in or sponsored by some libertarians or something.

These takers would be thinking that it would be entirely just to make these one percenters pay

their fair share, and about time would be the general sentiment.

But according to recent comments from Jordan Peterson, the global line that sets apart the 1%

is an annual income of $32,000. If you make more than that, you are in the top 1 percentage point.

Taking away half of that would be 16K and I'm quite sure they're globally impoverished

would be very grateful for your contribution. However, the chances are also good that your companions

went white in the face upon discovering that they were in the 1%. This is because global justice

feels a lot more wholesome when you are ransacking the billionaires

instead of the sensations you experience when you are being ransacked.

And so this means that we need to have a meaningful discussion of what it means to have wealth.

What is it?

It is not money because money is simply a measuring stick for something else.

You can't eat your money and it won't keep the rain off.

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