Wealth is the product of work.
That's precisely wrong. It's like saying the heat of the box caused by the billiard balls bouncing around inside is determined by the final position of the balls at measurement. We all know that the heat is caused by the balls slamming into each other over time. The temperature is proportional to the average degree of deflection.
A home, car or building may or may not represent wealth. If it is paid for and owned, it represents wealth. If the bank owns it, it really represents a liability as it was paid for with the promise of future work.
The alienated view. Ownership can't be the object of action. Maybe you can explain why someone like Carl Icahn is absorbed in WS. Does he seek wealth or the action? To Icahn what he makes isn't wealth. It isn't even chips. He seeks the action exclusively. The billionaire oilman, H.L. Hunt, said, "ownership causes all the problems".
The only wealth you have is the job you do each day.
Those symbols are the things that wealth reflects off of
You missed the symbolism. It went right over your head. Your interpretation doesn't fit the context. That indicates a failure to read carefully or to b e open to feel meaning.
so we can see them.
Envy of the OWS crowd. That's what Marx called "material alienation". Marx had a few things right which he expressed in his 1844 "Philosophical Communism", and this alienation concept was one of them. Then he started to live with Engels, and the worst side of him came out. He developed an OWS chip on his shoulder, probably arising from resentment towards Engel's inheritance.
But those symbols also reflect future work,
Utopianism. Someone else will be commanded to sacrifice to deliver utopia to you. Someone else will have to be enslaved to make the delivery.
so until you know that little detail it can't be said whether it is wealth or not.
This is the mystification that comes from those designing utopia who will enjoy someone else's money now while they're empowered by fools to presumably deliver the good life in the future, all a delusion. What they will deliver is chaos and anarchy. |
