Is anything wrong with people getting rich if they earn it?

Question

Isn't this better than being dependent on others?

Answer 1

Not at all....what is wrong is that if a person works hard to become rich, they have to give their money away to people who are not trying to better themselves. Programs for the underprivileged are a good idea, if they actually do something with the money they get.

Answer 2

There is nothing wrong with earning wealth. However, it is wrong to horde wealth while your fellow man goes hungry or without medical care. I think we can all agree that if you have $1,000,000 sitting in the bank and your neighbor is starving to death, that makes you morally bankrupt and an evil person.

The political division comes in finding the solution to this problem. Some people believe in stealing what the "rich" rightfully earned in the name of "social justice". Stealing is still stealing, even if it is for a good purpose. Two wrongs do not make a right, and if your solution is to steal money from the "rich" to give to the poor, then you are just as evil as the person hording the wealth.

The only moral solution is to find ways to redistribute the wealth without stealing, the use of force, or coersion. Wealth must be redistributed, but not at gun-point.

Answer 3

Nothing, but you need to define "earn" - I say if you gained it all through voluntary transactions that's earning it.

One poster above me has a problem with athletes and entertainers - there's a simple answer, stop going to the games and the shows! I love the Red Sox but there's no effing way I'm paying $50 to sit in a seat that cost $4 when I was a kid and paying $5 for a watered down cup of Budweiser - which is watered down too much to begin with.

Answer 4

i'm, me, mine, is not saying anything wrong with people getting rich, it is the feeling of superiority and denial of basic earthly freedoms that bothers me, and you can not earn it.

I've been there, on top i mean, more money than i knew what to do with, checks uncashed and pile up. I felt like i deserved it, like i 'earned' it. That's just not so, I was lucky and it could have been many other people in my position, i was not special, in all reality i was a patsy, a tool, the job is not hard. Now i havn;t worked in a while, my fault i'm sure...
But i'm no different than i was yesterday, I'm no more or less deserving of life or a place to lay my head.

It's the superiority complex that bothers me, and the way divisions are, and claiming that you do deserve more of the pie that's on all our table, many claim you can only even get what you do off the backs of the poor who are exploited. The market is wild and will gouge you for all you're worth.

Answer 5

No. But what I find wrong is when every Republican complains that the richest 2% should have to pay more taxes. This is from the Limbaugh/Hannity play book.

Have you ever once heard anyone in that highest 2% complain about more taxes. I seriously doubt it. They are well aware that hard work alone did not get them all that wealth. Much of is due to good old fashioned luck. And they are grateful for what they have and don't complain about the taxes.

Answer 6

As long as you didn't get it by hurting anyone else, and don't hurt anyone else in how you spend it, I have no problem with it. Even if you just sit on it, do nothing but let it accumulate, that's OK. It's like the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm. Also known as the Golden Rule, a variation of which is at the heart of every religion: "What is hateful to you, do not do to others."

Answer 7

nothing wrong at all. to make money in this country there is always a time when you have to step on someone's back. its normal. so these posers can go somewhere because there are ALWAYS sacrifices.

Painted stick- give me a break because if you earned oodles of dollars you would change as well and look down at the poor. easy to talk when your at the short end of the stick

Answer 8

enable's initiate with each and all of the millionaires in Congress and the White abode. Then artwork our way around to each and all of the media moguls and the wealthy athletes, first. What approximately billionaire foreigners like George Soro's who throw their left wing money around manipulating our political technique. What part of "tax human beings making $one hundred,000 a year" sounds rich to you? that's who is going to get hit the worst, watch and notice. in case you think of that elitist communard interior the White abode cares with reference to the undesirable, you're regrettably incorrect.

Answer 9

Depends on HOW they get rich.
Politicians climb on the back of poor people. They are the only ones -besides the Post Office, who can vote themselves a raise and get it!

Answer 10

Nothing at all, it's why we chose a capitalist free market economy. Don't fool yourself, however, the rich still depend on others.