Giacomo Costa in this article writes: "It is probably incorrect to think that in Jesus’ view the moral dangers of wealth beset only a Rockefeller, or a Bill Gates, or any other tycoon. They beset all who have enough imagination not to undervalue the future with respect to the present… they beset all of us. To be rich, it is enough to have an unconstrained imagination."
Which has to be one of the best definitions of wealthiness I've come across: it fingers us in the west without engaging in the politics of envy or of pity. Put it together with my post earlier about happiness and income where £7,500 seems to be the point at which further increases in income do not add to happiness or a sense of wellbeing and we have a fairly good basis for a political economy of enough, perhaps.
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