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		rayiner on Nov 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Praise of Idleness (1932) The entire wealth of the world is only about $46,000 per person (this includes things like the value of homes, personal assets like cars, etc.)

jdbernard on Nov 12, 2019 [–]

To be a little less tongue-in-cheek it seems to me that it is less a problem of scarcity and more a problem of distribution. Food, for example, is this way. Land, by and large, is also.

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