Letter: When is having more than enough enough?

In his novel “A Walk on the Wild Side,” Nelson Algren makes the following observation:“When we got more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don’t have enough. If everybody has more than enough, what good is my more-than-enough? What good is a wide meadow open to everyone? It isn’t until others are fenced out that the open pasture begins to have real