DJS,
Human nature is the guarantee that we are doomed: Even a rich country may become poor overnight through a natural calamity. Wealth can disappear with changes in the economy. Stocks and bonds may lose value or a serious illness may drain our finances. Alexander the Great proved to the world putting his empty hands outside of his coffin that we come here empty-handed and has to go empty handed. Knowing all these things, people are repeating the same mistake of amassing wealth at the cost of many other people. We are born in fear, live in fear and die in fear. We live in a time when even the President of the sole superpower requires a no-fly zone over his residence even when he visits other countries.