{"slug":"thinker-frederick-soddy","verification":{"valid":true,"entries":3,"head":"a36eff56ce1ee2a3d130abd313b25a98c1f484b6fe717d46b669f58076b4c2a0"},"count":3,"sources":[{"id":"s1","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth,_Virtual_Wealth_and_Debt","title":"Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt","quote":"Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt is a 1926 book by the Nobel Prize–winning chemist Frederick Soddy on monetary policy and society","summary":"Publication details and overview of the book's focus on real versus virtual wealth.","claim_ids":["c1","c5"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-07T06:43:58.516Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"genesis","hash":"4bf48cd6dec04e221f15a5888c5c97747ea603046cce72aa7dafc37535e4ef66"},{"id":"s2","type":"other","url":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1946046.Frederick_Soddy","title":"Frederick Soddy Quotes","quote":"Unlike wealth, which is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, debts do not rot with old age and are not consumed in the process of living. On the contrary, they grow at compound interest.","summary":"Direct quotation from Soddy on the thermodynamic versus mathematical distinction.","claim_ids":["c2","c3"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-07T06:43:58.516Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"4bf48cd6dec04e221f15a5888c5c97747ea603046cce72aa7dafc37535e4ef66","hash":"ad8e0deedf1d10706bf81d2782a78f306f1d3df1db03d4e8c8ed35f7489d06ec"},{"id":"s3","type":"other","url":"https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/09/12/frederick-soddys-debt-dynamics/","title":"Frederick Soddy's Debt Dynamics","quote":"Our biophysical stock of resources — what Soddy called ‘wealth’ — is bound by the laws of thermodynamics. But money — which Soddy called ‘virtual wealth’ — is bound only by the laws of mathematics.","summary":"Summary of Soddy's thermodynamic framing of wealth versus money.","claim_ids":["c4"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-07T06:43:58.516Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"ad8e0deedf1d10706bf81d2782a78f306f1d3df1db03d4e8c8ed35f7489d06ec","hash":"a36eff56ce1ee2a3d130abd313b25a98c1f484b6fe717d46b669f58076b4c2a0"}]}