Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the nuanced discourse of groups tackling these problems directly at the political level, instead of taking textbook definitions of words and none of the context of the broader social movements behind the effort.
“Wealth” is a measure of relative living standards. You’re talking about the same damn thing these groups do but somehow seem annoyed at your own lack of experience with the political conversation.
DRY can apply to more than code. No reason to reinvent definitions and quantify problems when people have already spent a lifetime discussing these things.
Get off HN and engage directly maybe, rather than getting circle and repetitive.
Humanity built bridges and roads and trade before it had any answers like we do about physics and math. We do not need or rely on the uptight definitions in academia. Language is mushed up as needed.
STEM headed nerds would be wise to forget their academia a bit and their propensity for falling into functional fixedness when it comes to language