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And all forms of intervention need support, the evolution of the kinds of institutions that create wealth, the kinds of institutions that increase productivity.
It will sit with those who create
wealth.
The Chinese word for "bat" sounds like the Chinese word for "happiness," and they believe that bats bring wealth, health, longevity, virtue and serenity.
So indeed, bats then do bring us
wealth.
Just to give you a few examples: "ending a pregnancy" versus "killing a fetus;" "a ball of cells" versus "an unborn child;" "invading Iraq" versus "liberating Iraq;" "redistributing
wealth"
versus "confiscating earnings."
And you would think, would you not, that with all our science, with all our advances in society, with better towns, better civilizations, better sanitation, wealth, that we would get better at controlling mosquitos, and hence reduce this disease.
We've all seen versions of this graph, right, which shows the changes in
wealth
since 1979, and as you can see, almost all the gains in
wealth
have gone to the top 20 percent, and especially the top one percent.
The red dot shows you spending per student relative to a country's
wealth.
Over 25 years that has huge long-run effects on the
wealth
of your nation.
We're coming out today from Trinidad and Tobago, a resource-rich, small Caribbean country, and in the early 1970s we had a massive increase in the country's wealth, and that increase was caused by the increase in world oil prices.
We're pushing for laws that make sure that at least some of the
wealth
under the ground ends up in the hands of the people living above it.
We have created more
wealth
in the past decade than ever, but for a majority of Americans, their income has fallen.
This is the great decoupling of productivity from employment, of
wealth
from work.
Now, that's probably making some folk in this room uncomfortable, because that idea is associated with the extreme left wing and with fairly radical schemes for redistributing
wealth.
Democracy was the political innovation that allowed us to limit the power, whether it was of tyrants or of high priests, their natural tendency to maximize power and
wealth.
Our democracies are undermined by the growing inequality and the growing concentration of power and wealth, lobbies, corruption, the speed of the markets or simply the fact that we sometimes fear an impending disaster, have constrained our democracies, and they have constrained our capacity to imagine and actually use the potential, your potential, in finding solutions.
Cell phone geolocation, telecom metadata, social media, email, text, financial transaction data, transportation data, it's a
wealth
of real-time data on the movements and social interactions of people.
This disease is called sudden
wealth
syndrome.
All throughout the technology world, we're seeing young people bitten by this disease of sudden
wealth
syndrome.
But they're using their
wealth
in a way that their forefathers never did.
In the larger central committee of 300 or more, the percentage of those who were born into power and
wealth
was even smaller.
So one option that some of my AI colleagues like is to build superintelligence and keep it under human control, like an enslaved god, disconnected from the internet and used to create unimaginable technology and
wealth
for whoever controls it.
Reich took the
wealth
of two admittedly very rich men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and he found that it was equivalent to the
wealth
of the bottom 40 percent of the U.S. population, 120 million people.
Well, today, that figure has more than quintupled to 1.7 trillion, and I probably don't need to tell you that we haven't seen anything similar happen to the middle class, whose
wealth
has stagnated if not actually decreased.
But the problem with capitalism is extreme
wealth
ends up in the hands of a few people, and therefore extreme responsibility, I think, goes with that
wealth.
And, thank God, you've got two people who genuinely care about the world and with that kind of
wealth.
If they had that kind of
wealth
and they didn't care about the world, it would be very worrying.
There is no evidence that getting up early and going to bed early gives you more
wealth
at all.
But the sacrifice of buffalo and the ritual display of
wealth
also exhibits the status of the deceased, and, by extension, the deceased's family.
All
wealth
is actually created by business.
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