&gt;have accumulated so much wealth<p>I think the problem is here. What is the definition of wealth?<p>Often wealth is conflated with money or capital. When you start off with a fictional concept, you get fictional results. What does it mean to accumulate wealth? Produce a pile of gold bricks? Amass fat stacks of cash? Obtain the most 1s in the most significant bits in your values in GS&#x27;s databases?<p>It seems to me that there are only really people&#x27;s wants and needs and whether or not they are currently being met. How can you put a wealth quantity into that framework?<p>&gt;that they really don&#x27;t know how to allocate it sanely<p>In what sense does a holder of massive accumulated wealth allocate it? Do you mean handing out cash with the expectation that the recipient will perform actions on demand?