Our illusory view of wealth

Heres an interesting article I just read which talks about an aspect of the depth of the economic problems the world is facing at the moment.  It points to there being serious problems with our current way of thinking about wealth and exchange.  I think in recent times most of us have bought into an illusory view of wealth.  The cracks are showing now and we really need to start thinking differently if we want to bring things into balance.

So many of us have been running, just to stay in place and now we are finding out that we may have actually been going backwards.  Time for a new system? new goals? new ways of thinking about wealth, work and how we interact with others in our community?

http://business.time.com/2012/06/20/our-net-worth-is-down-39-how-worried-should-we-be/?iid=biz-article-mostpop1