Among the more prevalent topics within ethical instruction are issues related to wealth and poverty. Economics are part of the very fabric of human existence, offering frameworks for provision and sustenance that allow societies to function, survive, and even thrive. Whether modeled on capitalism, socialism, communism, or medieval feudalism, these systems and their various iterations have resulted in uprisings, revolutions, and war. It is little wonder that a great deal is invested into questions about morality as it pertains to wealth and want, or that the language associated with economics has developed to include a multiplicity of layers with rich intertexture between the material, social, and ethical worlds.