Industrialized countries that have trained numerous skilled workers and technicians are better placed to produce wealth than countries whose workers are largely unskilled.
Why do we indulge in the myth that the fabulous wealth generated by this mode of production will in the fullness of time become available to all people?
He threw down the bags he had loaded himself with, and walked distractedly up and down the cave, without having the least regard to the riches that were around him.
Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.
As Henry lay dying, leaving a vast treasure (much of it, interestingly, from trading alum, essential for dyeing cloth), he said he was sorry for what his officers had done.