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If you simply conflate "richest" with "most powerful", this is already the case, and has been for most of human history. It's unclear why we should care about
by fiatmoney 11y ago
If you simply conflate "richest" with "most powerful", this is already the case, and has been for most of human history. It's unclear why we should care about monetary wealth specifically more than other dimensions of power.
- chiaro 11y agoProbably because it's very easy to measure, and correlates with other dimensions through well known adjustments like Purchasing Power.
- jessriedel 11y agoMoney and assets are more easily measured, taken, and transferred.
- dkarapetyan 11y agoIt's easily measurable and since everything pretty much correlates with everything else when it comes to complicated systems like the world economy putting in some corrective feedback is a worthwhile effort. As it is I think things are stuck in a positive feedback loop (rich getting richer) and that's not healthy from either social or systems perspective.