No longer mere money-makers, the rich became wealth-creators.
"All wealth has become wealth for its own sake.
The Greeks had a word for the art of moneymaking ("chrimatistikos"), but now, she continues, "all wealth has become wealth for its own sake," and money, having lost its narrative quality, "is talking to itself".
In the future, I hope that the transport and logistics infrastructure will be in place so that Nigerian farmers can accept an order and easily ship perishable produce quickly across the border to a customer based in Niger or Chad – and all managed from their phone – enabling them to grow their businesses and become wealth generators.
We are far more likely to become wealth creators and societal contributors when we are free to develop our gifts.
"As income inequality becomes wealth inequality, that's much easier to pass on generation to generation".
If it is so easy to become wealth, then everyone would already be doing it and there would be no need to advertise about it.
Trust in this and follow these rules and sudden wealth will become permanent wealth.
After flying more than 50 combat missions during three tours in Asia, the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, he retired from active duty and became a wealth manager adviser at Neuberger Berman, the asset manager formerly owned by Lehman Brothers.
During the years of its operation, the building served as a rendezvous point for slavers trafficking in a seemingly inexhaustible resource: Africans, whose very bodies became the wealth of white men.
The wealth creators of recent years have suddenly become the wealth destroyers, although there were already many nervous people at last year's five-day conference in the frozen Alps as the credit crunch was already six months old.
