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> There are two kinds of wealth that gets confused in the discussion.

No, there's just wealth. Which is basically what you are calling "absolute wealth".

What you are calling "relative wealth" is not wealth; it's either simple trade (when you buy a product, you are "commanding the means of production" that produced it, but that's just how a free market works) or brute force (using either overt violence or government power to "command" resources that in a free market would go to other uses).




Relative to your peers. If it clear things up.


> Relative to your peers. If it clear things up.

I already understood that that's what you meant. It doesn't change anything I said.




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