The Government here is trying to destroy wealth.
"I want nothing to do with people who are trying to destroy the image, wealth and morality of Italy."
Both of these count, in legal terms, as private property, and the individual owner has the right to buy, sell, control and even destroy personal wealth.
Unemployment has robbed £trillions from the working class, mostly by destroying wealth or preventing the normal increase.
This book reminds us of those missteps and how years of inaction and denial are still destroying wealth and the economy.
Over time, those no-questions-asked investments destroyed wealth instead of creating it.
Inflation destroys wealth and dissuades investors from investing in business and factories.
She would also be destroying many lives and much wealth, and reducing to slavery the surviving inhabitants of any city she conquered.
But rather than making Indians prosperous, by most accounts, the allotment system destroyed tribal wealth and led to Indians losing two-thirds of the land.
In his view, consumption destroys wealth, in contrast to production which is the source of economic growth.