Replying to some discussion on the distinction between wealth and money
(several posts):
With my husband's death last December, I've had an extraordinary
wakeup call on this issue. I had been worried about money, but not
wealth: his death confirms this, since the money issues are really not
issues - but his loss makes me immeasureably poorer: my wealth is gone!
To rebuild a sense of wealth is far less an issue of money than
of finding a sense of sustenance and nourishment, of affluence if you
will, in things spiritual and emotional, so much of which had been tied
up with him for so long.
If has it right, it seems to me: there is an enormous difference
between money and wealth, and a sense of wealth is tied up in the
meanings and sense we impose. Mother Theresa is wealthy; Donald Trump
has money.
Sam
MXJELI@MAIL.WM.EDU
Mariann Jelinek
Richard C. Kraemer Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business,
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Tel. (804) 221-2882 FAX: (804) 229-6135
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