What Level of Wealth Do You Consider Evil?

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166. Any amount of wealth at all could be considered "evil"

In my view, wealth is an accumulation of claims on planetary resources.

The effect of wealth accumulation is a growing pool of people who all have claims on the same set of resources. The fight to resolve whose claim will be satisfied first (or at all) leads to competition, underhanded behavior, price escalation, and the need to keep expanding the "pie" - the amount of planetary resources needed to satisfy all competing claims. Since wealth is abstract, it can increase much faster than the resources needed to satisfy it, so we end up in a Red Queen's Race - to the everlasting damage of the planet.

From this point of view it is the concept of wealth itself that is evil, irrespective of the amount of it that one has hoarded.

Unfortunately, when the problem is understood like this, there is no solution to it short of going back to the caves.