I don’t mean doctor-making-150k-a-year rich, I mean properly rich with millions to billions of dollars.

I think many will say yes, they can be, though it may be rare. I was tempted to. I thought more about it and I wondered, are you really a good person if you’re hoarding enough money you and your family couldn’t spend in 10 lifetimes?

I thought, if you’re a good person, you wouldn’t be rich. And if you’re properly rich you’re probably not a good person.

I don’t know if it’s fair or naive to say, but that’s what I thought. Whether it’s what I believe requires more thought.

There are a handful of ex-millionaires who are no longer millionaires because they cared for others in a way they couldn’t care for themselves. Only a handful of course, I would say they are good people.

And in order to stay rich, you have to play your role and participate in a society that oppresses the poor which in turn maintains your wealth. Are you really still capable of being a good person?

Very curious about people’s thoughts on this.

  • HipHoboHarold@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There’s a huge difference between having food to eat

    And having millions of dollars doing nothing

    Or me living in an apartment

    And someone living in a building that could take up a whole city block

    It’s not the fact that they have money. It’s how they get it and what they do with it.

    I have money, but I don’t have enough to save. I don’t make enough to do much outside of maybe buy a small amount of food for a homeless person. I’m not solving shit. However, living in the city I have had people ask for some change, and I’ve done it. But I can’t do shit.

    However, there are people who can actually help that won’t. They get more money than they need and then just sit on it. Many of them get it through exploiting others.

    But if we want to ignore things scaling and just reach, if I give a homeless person a dollar, should he not share that?

    • HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ll add on here that there’s a major difference between

      1. being able to give a resource and be completely unphased

      And

      1. Being able to give a resource and now either having to make do without that resource, or be on the edge of insolvency because you gave away the resource.

      Even for Americans who are living a little better than paycheck to paycheck, I have read something like 30% of them are one personal disaster away from homelessness, themselves.