Wealth and power perform different functions, but in a similar manner both personally
and socially (there's a third aspect of their building & distribution; but we're
not including it here).
Here's a quick run-down comparison of them in order to help you distinguish how
vote sizing correlates them.
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A value system characterized by the desire to take in, consume, experience
the environment, and invoke internal change. |
A value system characterized by a desire to produce, spawn, act (or not act)
on the environment, be experienced, and control external change. |
Individually
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Money:
The manifestation of personal wealth.
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Votes:
The manifestation of personal power..
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- Encourages behavior.
- Forms reactions and growth.
- Generates new realizations that come from experience.
- Is fed by our whims.
- Allows for insulation, both socially and environmentally.
- Separates - backs us away
from the environment and each other.
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- Encourages premeditation.
- Form reasoning skills.
- Generates wisdom that comes from the trial and error of
action.
- Are expressions of our responsibilities.
- Allow for participation, both socially and environmentally.
- Assembles - steps us forward
into the environment and each other.
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Socially
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The manifestation of social wealth.
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The manifestation of social power..
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- Facilitates the consumption and utilization of resources.
- Places values on our resources, providing the information needed
to expedite our growth within our environment.
- Promotes the free and fair exchange of this information.
- Fires up the collective imagination,
in place of indolence.
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- Regulates production and behavior.
- Provides a feedback loop to correct mistakes, so we can
restrict our growth to the limits of our environment.
- Protects us from undue harm and ensures our freedom
to pursue our goals in an unmolested way.
- Begets discipline and
direction, in place of mob rule.
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