What is wealth?
Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of wealth.
What is wealth ?
Dictionary defines wealth as an abundance of valuable material possessions or resources.
An abundance of money?
And what is money? The lexicon again defines it as “A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market”. Some say its useable power. But isn’t useable power energy?
Thus is wealth an accumulation of energy?
If so why is wealth not gauged in terms of wind stored?
Imagine...the greatest fart would then be the wealthiest among us! :D
And isn’t electricity an energy too? Would our ambition then center around building bigger power stations? Would we then be desperate to store volts in vaults? The status would then revolve around being Megawatters as against millionaires? Would we then be carrying around more gadgets and gizmos to show and secure our wealth?
The Sun is the basis for all our nourishment, the creator of the food chain. What if sunlight became the basis of wealth? Would we be loosing sleep on whether it would raise tomorrow and at what lumen the stock of Sunlight’s brightness would trade?
The trees and natural vegetation cocoons our existence, providing oxygen for the air we breathe, the basic layer of food chain and holding off flood from washing away the accumulation of our years.
Yet, over the years, the wealth of humanity has increased, yet that of greenery has depleted. Does anybody think a tree might be a better asset then a bank balance?
I could be wrong of course...money might not be energy.
In that case I wonder what it is?
I do hope somebody plants a tree...while I go and attend to my bills...and earn some more money to barricade my loved ones from some fears and worries.
Avi