If you work for your money, can you feel more, less the same in terms of deserving the money as someone who has been given the money through inheritance? Do people who inherert large sums of money have an ethical oblication to remember that they did not produce the windfall, they just happened by birth to inherit the money?
Face it, there is a lot of people who stomp around like they earned their money, when in fact, they did not earn it and have no right to act like they did earn it.
The same is true for those in America that inherited the American history, institutions and general principles developed and used in American before they were born.
If you inherit a million dollars, you very well might be invited or at least welcome where others how work for a living are not invited or welcome. It seems to me that the Christian ideal of being humble is important in this regard.
Some one proud as a peacock for something they did not earn should have it tatooed in their forehead!
2007-11-06 06:59:27 · 7 answers · asked by zclifton2 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Conservatives love to quote one of their leaders Ayn Rand who wrote the Fountainhead which was a glorification of freedom of choice and self determination.
She once wrote about something called "The Virtue of Selfishness" This is what your talking about.
Ayn Rand was a lesbian who also died of cigarette cancer.
So much for the triumph of the will:)
2007-11-06 09:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, humility is not something special to the christian faith. There are many people of other religions or of no religion who are very humble.
Next up, I know a quite a few people who are millionaires. I don't know a single one who inherited it. I do know one who won the lottery. However, he is a very humble person who does not flaunt his wealth. Of the others, they made their money thru saving and investment. They do not flaunt their money.
Also, define this obligation you are speaking about. Do you mean that they are supposed to be quiet and not mention they have money to anyone? Do you mean that they are not supposed to use the money? Do you want them to give the money away to others? The "obligation" you speak of is kind of ambigious. Also, who gets to be the judge of when someone is crossing the line? What rules are there that define when someone is flaunting their wealth? If a person holds a big party and has everyone over and shows off everything they have bought, is that flaunting? If the person buys a new house, is that flaunting? If the person quits his/her job, is that flaunting?
I have a feeling that you are suffering from a case of envy. You wish to have the wealth that some of these people and you just don't. Therefore, you start to attack these people and call their choices wrong and say that their money was undeserved. It is not a problem with the picture, it is a problem with the viewer.
2007-11-06 15:09:55 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds to me like you've got a chip on your shoulder. I've inherited money and I also work. the money I inherited is only used as a last resort and is safely stored away in a savings account. I'm still the same person I was without the money, I still buy the cheaper options, I still budget and I don't flash my cash and act like I'm better than other people.
So earn your money, spend your money and stop being so concerned about other people's wealth.
2007-11-06 15:06:29 · answer #3 · answered by honest 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We live under a capitalist system. For all its flaws, it generally works. But under this economic system, if you don't own the means of production (a factory, a multinational corporation), you have to sell your labor to the person who does own it. This is true whether you sell ditch-digging, or sit at a keyboard and type all day.
So, yes, I feel that if you have the luck to own great wealth, it carries a responsibility with it. This is what the idea of 'stewardship' is all about.
2007-11-06 15:05:46 · answer #4 · answered by Melinda C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Salam
Do people in wealth understand there is other people living on the face of the earth beside them?
2007-11-06 15:02:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
well, my great aunt died, and my parents are getting 7000$ becuase of it. and we are gonna use it to redo the floors and bathroom...
2007-11-06 15:03:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no they have no obligation at all
2007-11-06 15:02:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋