From the vineyard – vino dei poveri

Unless your name is Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, or whoever for the moment enjoys the dubious accolade of Richest Person in the World, it is undeniably true that everybody, whether pauper or prince, is both richer and poorer than somebody else. Of course, while true, the point is banal: it all depends on which “metric”, as is fashionably said these days, is being used. St Francis, the poverello of Assisi, considered himself the richest of all, though he possessed, quite literally, nothing of his own. Poverty was his metric, not possession.

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