Do you know what &quot;wealth&quot; is academically? (I don&#x27;t) How much of it access to capital (credit worthiness), ownership of property, influence over the commons (political power)?<p>The last one is tricky. If one society says say, all water is privatized and you need x amount for your factory then you purchase it. If another says all water is communal, then you need to assuage the community to permit you x amount.<p>At the end you have the effectively the same thing and these two people have the same &quot;water wealth&quot;. Measuring generalized wealth quantitatively however, I don&#x27;t know what that means.