I think your point is more pedantry than substance. Yes, wealth is qualitatively different, but referring to it as distributed across a population is still intu

I think your point is more pedantry than substance. Yes, wealth is qualitatively different, but referring to it as distributed across a population is still intuitively clear and does not read as an abnormal use of the word. > So, do you believe wealth is earned by hard work and diligence or that it is distributed by some kind of greater power? I don't believe either thing absolutely. I believe wealth can be earned by hard work and diligence, but that those things are neither necessary nor sufficient. I believe wealth is often distributed by a greater power in effect if not in literal practice through things like regressive taxation and systematic difference in access quality education that have a disparate (and in my opinion, inequitable) impact on those of lesser means.