met many unsung heroes, people who toil in obscurity to find a wealth
others could imagine let alone achieve.
There's a story I tell people to make them understand what wealth is. I
use the example of two people I've met in my life: Alison Cobb and Dr
Katherine Darton. They have more wealth on my measures than Bill Gates.
He's got a lot of good on my measures because he gave a billion to help
the children of Africa. Katherine and Alison have given so much more.
In the UK there's a poverty that few could even perceive: the poverty of
life. Developed world nations have maladapted societies, dysfunctional
and bleeding from the inside. The people of the UK are miserable and the
evidence shows it.
Katherine and Alison are two amazing people who have toiled to make the
situation better. Their efforts have touched my life when I've reached
the depths of life poverty. They both work at the UK's leading mental
health charity, Mind. Alison is one of the UK's eminent mental health
policy experts and has dedicated herself to the lives of those who
suffer. Dr Katherine Darton work's at Mind's Information Unit. She knows
more about mental health than anyone I know, but real mental health
knowledge: she knows wisdom. In that respect I think she's the richest
person in the UK.
Gandhi got recognised for what he did. These people haven't. I'd have
liked to met Gandhi before I died. I met his type instead and it's a
blessing. They're all soldiers in a war against the shit in life.
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