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If I turn with gentle curiosity toward that fear, I find enormous
wealth
within myself and others and the ability to step into challenges that I never thought I could.
But the truth is that the challenges of making this happen have less to do with what we do and more to do with the
wealth
position in which we are born.
So I'm going to make the case that the United States government, actually that any government, should create a trust account for every newborn of up to 60,000 dollars, calibrated to the
wealth
of the family in which they are born.
We use words like choice, freedom to describe the benefits of the market, but it is literally
wealth
that gives us choice, freedom and optionality.
Basically, when it comes to economic security,
wealth
is both the beginning and the end.
In the US, the top 10 percent of households hold about 80 percent of the nation's
wealth
while the bottom 60 percent owns only about one percent.
But when it comes to wealth, race is an even stronger predictor than class itself.
Blacks and Latinos collectively make up 30 percent of the United States population, but collectively own about seven percent of the nation's
wealth.
The 2016 survey of consumer finance indicates that the typical black family has about 17,000 dollars in wealth, and that's inclusive of home equity, while the typical white family has about 170,000.
That is indicative of an absolute racial
wealth
gap where the typical black household has about 10 cents for every dollar held by the typical white family.
Over the last 45 years,
wealth
disparity has increased dramatically, and essentially, all the economic gains from America's increase in productivity have gone to the elite or the upper middle class.
In fact, blacks who live in families where the head graduated from college typically have less
wealth
than white families where the head dropped out of high school.
Perhaps we overstate the functional role of education at the detriment of understanding the functional role of
wealth.
Basically, it is
wealth
that begets more
wealth.
There are obviously many details to be worked out, but it is a policy proposal grounded in the functional roles and the inherited advantages of
wealth
that moves us away from the reinforcing status quo behavioral explanations for inequality towards more structural solutions.
Our existing tax policy that privileges existing
wealth
rather than establishing new
wealth
is a choice.
It is time to get beyond the false narratives that attribute inequality to individual personal deficits while largely ignoring the advantages of
wealth.
But the question we have to ask is, where is the
wealth?
So, there are so many great examples in this book, and I suggest that everybody just read it because it answers the question I asked earlier, which was where are we going to get the
wealth
to build the types of business that we want.
The economy grows very fast, their
wealth
grows very fast.
They embody more
wealth.
It's not about
wealth
and fame and power.
[Yoruba: Freeborn Ijebu-Ode son,] [of true Ogbogbo Clan,] [whose
wealth
and resources surpass all that Europe ever had,] [whose altar is filled with gold.]
And so the logical thing to think was that they are going to age out of the gang like everybody else has, and the next generation is going to take over and get the
wealth.
They never passed on any of the wealth, So everybody got stuck at that $3.50-an-hour job, and it turned out to be a disaster.
The satellites are reporting a
wealth
of observations that are revealing new hidden facts about the ice sheets continuously.
And of course, the third motivator, one near and dear to my heart as an entrepreneur, is
wealth.
In fact, the greatest
wealth.
For the first time ever, we have enough
wealth
concentrated in the hands of few individuals and the technology accessible that will allow us to really drive space exploration.
And in terms of wealth, I don't think I'm super rich.
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