Author: erickim

Executive Summary To ask what it would mean to “see the true reality” is to ask at least four different questions at once. It can mean: whether there is a mind-independent world …

Executive summary The literature does not support a single-cause theory of wealth. Classical political economy explains wealth through the division of labor, market expansion, and capital accumulation; neoclassical theory emphasizes marginal productivity, …

Executive summary The best answer from the literature is not “more wealth causes complacency,” but “more wealth can increase the risk of complacency through identifiable pathways, while also creating resources that can …

Executive Summary The proposition “The purpose of wealth is presence” is partly true, but only under a strict instrumental reading. Across philosophy, religion, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and economics, the strongest defensible version …

Presence as Salience, Attunement, and Credibility Executive summary The maxim “Anything which adds to your presence is good; anything which removes from your presence is bad” is directionally useful if “presence” is …

Executive summary The strongest reading of the evidence is not that wealth automatically creates calm, nor that it inevitably corrupts into status seeking. It is that wealth is best understood as a …