... wealth with the ability to claim a share of the wealth produced by others.

"Wealth" in the financial press is a position in the interstices of the system that allows the person in that position to extract a toll from the going concerns that generate actual wealth in return for permission for to be allowed to generate that wealth.

"A lovely little productive enterprise you got 'ere, guv'na, shame if somefink was to 'appen to it..."

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

You have the right idea, if you want to be sane about it (which is usually disadvantageous these days), but you're confusing the ability to produce stuff of actual value (cars, sofas, computers, whatever) and accumulate assets while reducing -- at least relative to assets -- liabilities with the assortment of clowns and criminals playing hot potato with funnymoney.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin