why dont rich people try and help every body out it would be a better place to live?

Answer 1

only selfish people become rich, that's why.

Answer 2

I have often wondered that myself.

It is my own theory that when people are lucky enough to have good fortune, that they believe inertly that they deserve their good wealth. As if it is owed to them in some way. They live above hard labor, so it's easy to forget that some people break their backs every day for peanuts, b/c they have to. They don't know what it's like to cry yourself to sleep at night worrying about how to pay the bills. They get accustomed to having their own way, and much like a child, over time gets spoiled and rotten and can only think 'me!me!me!'

There are a good number of great philanthropists out there. The few that do help the less fortunate are so overwhelmed by conniving money grubbers that they rarely get to the heart of who needs help, and it's easy to give up.

I always thought that if I ever was rich, I'd make an effort to help people who needed it....just b/c I could. It seems like a small effort, but when you struggle for everything, anything is a blessing.

Answer 3

They got rich usually by working hard and not wasting it on booze drugs women or cigs, and they're not stupid enough to give it to charities where half goes in "expenses" if we're lucky, and certainly never to anything abroad where poverty exists mainly because they won't stop shagging so there are thousands of kids they can't afford to have let alone keep, and where the money goes in corruption anyway so the people never get to see any of it. That's why rich people don't try to help everybody else out - they know their money would only be wasted.
Oh, and I know about 2% of the rich people got the money left to them by rich relatives - but it still doesn't mean they've got to give it away, does it?

Answer 4

Because they got rich by being stingy. Haven't you ever noticed how it's always your poor mates who get the rounds in, who buy the Big Issue and will lend you their last fiver? The rich ones always keep their hands on their wallets. If you are referring to the uber-rich, then they just made their money by being greedier and more unscrupulous than most, on the whole. Saying that though, there are some very generous rich people out there who do give a lot of money away. Bill Gates and JK Rowling are just two examples, but they got rich on their own talents and abilities, rather than just through their ability to distance themselves from the reality of their actions ( I am thinking particularly of oil barons and weapons manufacturers here).

Answer 5

YES! It would, for you and the people that would like it on a plate.

Work comes first, and second, Rich people do share, but only with those people who are prepared to help themselves, and even then there's no such thing as a free lunch.
You help me, I pay you well, I help the next willing person, who then gets involved and works hard, which helps the next.
The cleaver ones get rich, by direction and hard work.
This is how life works.
Find your way and work hard.
Good luck! "The harder you work, the luckier you get"

Answer 6

I'm with YEAH WELL on this one - Why should people who have grafted hard their whole lives give money to people who don't want to work hard but want the same amount of money to show for it? I'm by no means rich but i get angry when the taxes i pay go to the people on benefits - i don't mind paying for people who are on disability benefit if they need it but it does my head in when i see people who are unemployed going to the pub and stuff coz thats my taxes that pay for it.
I was unemployed recently when i came back from living abroad and i borrowed money off my family and slept on a sofa for 2 months and any money i did get went on bills, not going out and having a good time.
If i was rich i would give some money to worthy causes not to the wasters i mentioned above.

Answer 7

Most people get rich because they are very good at something. That is all the happiness one could hope for in life. Why should they waste time worrying about you? Get up off your *** and make yourself useful, or don't. It's none of my business. It's not selfishness, it's focus, direction and passion. Making money is just a side effect of all those wonderful traits.

Answer 8

If they gave away there cash they wouldn't be rich any more that's the point so what would they have if they weren't rich ? but yes if the wealth was shared we could all have the same.

But why would people work hard to better themselves if you could only earn the same as the person who washes the dishes in the local pub ? we would all just sit about knowing we get the same the world would stop.

Answer 9

Unluckily. not every rich people is giving n sadly not much rich people is giving. The needs peoples are many but the giver is too little, that’s y the poverty still exist nowadays. Most people that rich start with nothing, poverty, but when they become richer day after day, they forget their past. That’s y they turn into selfish person, have no pity in other people.

Answer 10

are u for real; even "rich" peoples idea of "rich" is far from your idea of "rich". The ones who have worked hard to get "rich" are not simply giving it away; some donate to causes, foundations, etc.,big time. You won't get very far or have "riches" if you are focused on what somebody else has.

Answer 11

cos that's how they got rich in the first place look after number 1