Wealth - A Visual

What does wealth look like?  Think of something amorphous, like an amoeba, that has 7-meter/23-feet pythons [1] protruding from its body.  Here is a SEM (scanning electron micrograph) of an amoeba [2] that looks something like the imaginary wealth monster:

With each tentacle being a snake that constricts around its prey and asphyxiates it, the wealth monster engulfs the person who is responsible for his own wealth, or that of another as a fiduciary with scruples, and becomes the prey that is being suffocated by each python's intense pressure coiled around him.  Every python-tentacle represents an asset that needs to be protected from all sorts of economic risks and legal contingencies and within the bounds of the law, from every kind of taxation that can vary with the person or persons and entity or entities owning it depending on how many countries have jurisdiction over both the owners and the asset itself.

To free oneself from the choking pressure of wealth and its preservation is to step away, but stepping away from wealth may not be so easy especially if one's responsibility is to preserve the assets to serve those who have no money and no power, so they may have some semblance of life deserving of its basic dignities they otherwise would not have, being robbed clean by the relentless exploitations by a globalized economy blinded by greedy ambitions that serve those well-educated, well-heeled and well-connected, leaving many of the humble and non-combative, the shy and vulnerable behind, the very people whom God has entrusted to those who are more capable and more fortunate to provide assistance, encouragement and love.


[1] http://www.ehow.com/list_6152033_characteristics-python-snake_.html
[2] http://fineartamerica.com/featured/amoeba-sem-steve-gschmeissner.html