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Question 3: Wouldn't scarcity be a better starting point for understanding how a given society is functioning than wealth? When there is scarcity, this means there is a need to act, whereas wealth consists of dead things. Scarcity leads us to discover what drives society, wealth does not.

[4] LeatherBoy: I think that wealth is a good place to start. For Marx, ‘wealth’ constitutes more than just financial or monetary gains - in other words what popularized American culture tends to mean by wealth. Instead, Marx holds ‘wealth’ as that which betters and enhances life. How a society uses its wealth, therefore, gives us a better understanding of the priorities and social values important in that society. It becomes a matter of investigating not just what is missing in a society, scarcity, but what that society does to enhance and promote human life. (What it does with what it has.)

Looking at wealth and how a society distributes wealth leads us to look at a larger picture.

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