Illth consists of those artifacts which destroy, demean or degrade life.

In the end, understanding "illth," however elegantly, is something quite different from healing it or preventing it.

This is why John Ruskin, a century ago, tried to introduce a distinction between wealth and illth.

The End of Illth: In search of an economy that won't kill us.

(This was a contribution to illth, not wealth.)

A notable example is George Bernard Shaw, who used illth as a subheading in an 1889 essay.

Obviously, under primitive planetary conditionsfinite space and finite resourcesthe illth was perceived as necessary to protect the wealth.

Illth, coined by John Ruskin, is the reverse of wealth in the sense of ill being the opposite of well.

Wealth, Illth, Money, and the Financial Crisis", by Dan Clore"

The chronic alienation that defines the modern condition is, therefore, another symptom of topistic "illth" - literal and figurative unwholesomeness of place.

The Westward migration of Capital noted by Brooks Adams was a migration of both wealth and illth.

Of course, industrialism (the Second Wave) produced much illth along with its new wealth; and most of the wealth was extor appropriated by a minority.

At the same time, the equal Prometheus Rising and opposite increase in illth has led to more and more dystopian and apocalyptical fears.

It was not merely the agent by which "indust-reality" spread across the world and multiplied our collective wealth (and illth); it also became the model for everything else.

Illth: Used by Ruskin as the antithesis of wealth, which he defined as life itself; broadly, where wealth is 'well-being', illth is "ill-being".

The slum, he argues, is a late-18th-century phenomenon, a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution and a "new topistic ideal - to segregate good and bad experience, locating wealth and illth in separate spaces."

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McDonald's and its brethren want some love; they want people like Marion Nestle, Michele Simon and me to stop kvetching and instead acknowledge that they're making great strides in promoting health rather than "illth" [2] ... but only the most gullible buy that.