個人財富與社會福利之分

溫哥華英文教練，致力於地道英文表達

Welfare/wealth

區分這兩個詞的關鍵在於個人與社會，即“羣己之分”，簡言之，個人的財富叫wealth, 社會的福祉、福利叫welfare, welfare 與well-being 同義。

自由主義巨擘密爾說過這樣一句話:Let us substitute welfare for wealth as our governing purpose. Wealth’s older mean: kindness, mercy, opportunity, propriety; but today we use the plural of those words. Money, being the instrument of an important public and private purpose, is rightly regarded as wealth.

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