What is wealth? Well, it depends on who, what, what time frame they are considering the question.

Wealth could be a million dollars or some stacks of silver coin or a stash of Bitcoin or some nuts or

mealworms or a school of fish. I think the pursuit of wealth

individually and culturally on a finite planet is a subset of a collective action problem

and is central to the human predicament.

So I would like to do a historical evolutionary future overview, wide boundary overview of what is wealth today,

ahead of an upcoming frankly on what is debt and why does it matter?

All wealth originates in nature.

There is biology and ecology that use different terms.

Optimal foraging theory and nature shows that animals and organisms were the first investors,

and they invest their energy, an expense to get

food, the revenue, and the difference between those is income. So animals were the first investors,

and the returns are denominated in calories. So energy really is the currency of life. For most species during their lives,

wealth equals income because the ecological backdrop during their lives is constant in almost

all cases, unless the Chick-Club meteor

happened during their lifetime or things like that.

And their capacity to consume is limited by their body size.

So a lion can't eat 10 gazelles after the second one, no mass.

So for most biological organisms, wealth equals income.

And I'm just going to make this up because I think it conceptually is important.

There's primary wealth, which is food, water, shelter, food being calories, food water shelter, and freedom,

because animals in a zoo have food water and shelter, but there's a cage around them.

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