Can I be rich without some form of mischeif?

Answer 1

Your other answerers are all correct. But, there are exceptions. Some people get rich on their talent alone, without harming anyone, or exploiting anyone! There are not very many of these, but they do exist. Examples include authors like Stephen King, and Richard Bach, and Ann Rice, just to name a few! Another example might be inventors, like the guy who invented the thing that goes on the end of shoe laces to keep them from unraveling, or the guy who invented Velcro! Yet I do agree that most of the time, getting rich requires a certain ruthlessness, a lack of ethics and/or compassion for others. *sm*

Answer 2

I don't think that's possible as the world is made now.Our (Western World) propriety is still for a big part the direct result of atrocities in the past or continued oppression of the poor in other parts of the world
Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).

Answer 3

The first answerer has answered very well, he/she deserves to get best answer.



The competitive market is impossible to get too far ahead without beating your rivals, unfortunately many people have got were they are in society by unethical means, meaning that to get ahead you would have to be unethical yourself.

This is the failure of the competitive market, that there will always be a few with vast wealth while many with not enough to keep out of debt, not that socialism is any better.

Answer 4

I agree with my friend above. The reality of how the world works is this...
you cant get something for nothing.
it takes many little somethings to make a big something.
so it works out to have for example the diamond industry...
you need hundreds of underpaid malnourished africans to make a single diamond trader wealthy.