“Well, the first bucket is half full, but it’s all on one side. The second bucket is only a third full, but it’s level. Obviously, the second bucket is more full.”
You’re choosing to use words differently than they commonly are. Without any qualifiers, we use “wealth” to refer to financial wealth. Greece isn’t the wealthiest nation in the world, but their cultural wealth is significant. Likewise, mean wealth is useful for knowing how much…wealth a nation has. When compared to quality of life or median wealth, you can use it to identify issues the country needs to deal with. You just have to remember that just like wealth doesn’t mean “distribution of wealth”, it also doesn’t mean “good”.
Well, given the original comment was about how much wealth is available in the nation and yet this shitty location was still used for a school, I think it’s a good one. The point is to show the flaw in how that money is being distributed.
“Which of these two buckets has more sand?”
“Well, the first bucket is half full, but it’s all on one side. The second bucket is only a third full, but it’s level. Obviously, the second bucket is more full.”
You’re choosing to use words differently than they commonly are. Without any qualifiers, we use “wealth” to refer to financial wealth. Greece isn’t the wealthiest nation in the world, but their cultural wealth is significant. Likewise, mean wealth is useful for knowing how much…wealth a nation has. When compared to quality of life or median wealth, you can use it to identify issues the country needs to deal with. You just have to remember that just like wealth doesn’t mean “distribution of wealth”, it also doesn’t mean “good”.
Sure, much like anything in this world, it depends. In this case it depends on what you’re trying to compare, I suppose. 👍
Well, given the original comment was about how much wealth is available in the nation and yet this shitty location was still used for a school, I think it’s a good one. The point is to show the flaw in how that money is being distributed.
It doesn’t really matter how much wealth is available in the nation if it’s not available for the people who need it.
But I guess that was the point of what they were saying in the image, actually?
That’s what I figure.