Libya's energy wealth offers it incomparable advantages over its neighbors.
Some people are certainly enjoying the trappings their new wealth offers.
It is precisely because wealth offers (sometimes unfair) privileges that public vituperation for Madoff has been somewhat limited.
We are prone to buying into toxic fantasies — the unfathomable wealth offered up by the New Economy; the unlimited rewards of real estate.
Equally, Brick's cancerous father, Big Daddy, comes to realise that wealth offers no shield against mortality and that "the human animal is a beast that dies".
EVEN though he has misrepresented his wealth, offered brown envelopes stuffed with cash to MPs and falsely accused a former colleague of criminal corruption, Mohamed Al Fayed, the chairman of Harrods, London's premier luxury store, was not beyond the pale for the world's largest accountancy firm.
Sources said there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of the 49-year-old father of three, suggesting that he has joined a growing list of senior financiers for whom substantial wealth offered little protection from the emotional traumas of joblessness and diminishing status in a recession blamed squarely on their profession.
And now that the region's growing wealth offers greater opportunities for pharmaceutical firms, there is every chance that Asia's patients will also get to live longer and more prosperous lives.
Some want to become rich for the amenities and the trophies wealth offers: lavish houses, luxury cars, elegant yachts, expensive clothes, dining extravaganzas in the best restaurants and travel to exotic destinations.
Right or wrong, wealth offers privileges, and the sooner kids know it, the more likely they are to do something about it.
