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Sometimes wealth is not about having more.

5.7K views · Oct 15, 2026

Rabbi Shalom Landau

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The worst thing that can happen to a rich man is everyone else getting rich. Here is why. The rich man looks at the poor man and thinks I have more, so I'm more. Poor man looks at the back and thinks I have less, so I'm less. They both agree on one thing, money decides what a person is worth. Now watch what's coming. In 10 years everyone has a robot who gets them everything now. So the rich man is less important now. Although nothing about him changed, only the gap closed in. So you don't need to lose a dollar to feel smaller. You only need

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