Intellectual Confusion on the Subject of "Wealth"

Those who enslave others—whether by deliberate malice or deliberate ignorance of human goodwill—are the truest and simplest cowards, so foreign to the notion of human nature that only the illusion of power over it can sustain such backwards existences. In a capitalist society, money is that illusion, and those who hoard the most believe in it most strongly. Do not be angry at these self-titled "powerful," though, for they are the poorest and most naked of all among us - to all eyes but their never-inward-seeing own. Instead, pity them, or else suffer them nobly when you cannot; they will never know the cost nor reap the peace of honest introspection, yet will die—alone—pacified by delusions of having owned people, buildings, or a chain of malls. They will sow into the earth—and future—only their wasted flesh - never comprehending that they have never owned nor even known themselves, and that only by accident, (or in their own death), did they ever do a single thing that was truly worth doing at all.