JK isn't kidding. damn.
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In a shallow context yes. Sayings typically have deeper meanings.
Money is an abstraction of value/power
What is another thing we know about the nature of man? That he is corruptable.
What corrupts man? Power and/or greed.
You have covered the greed aspect of money in your statement.
You haven't covered the power aspect.
The useful abstraction "money" allowed people to accumulate godlike levels of power.
Imagine being able to have a mountain relocated because you want to and you have the money to pay to have it done. Imagine what that does to your head.
Or you could pay off people's mortgages, let people stay in your penthouse when they have serious troubles, give money to causes and/or charities in which you believe, or even something like buying a social media company to restore free speech. There are a couple of people we are interested in that fit that bill.
Money isn't necessarily evil. It is how you use it that is evil.
That's the point... The issue is that the money is corrupting and what you're describing do with it is a fairy tail.
It would be nice if people worked that way but man is corruptible.
Find me the billionaire philanthropist who lives in austerity and gives everything in excess to charity.
Then tell me what he is attoning for.
We don't live in a world of saints, we live in a world of men.
True philanthropy does not seek attention. A great deal of the good deeds in this world go unreported.
I'm talking about mega money and corrupting men, I'm not tlaking about sunday lottery money. When those people move money, the world feels it. I'm not talking about everyday things done by everyday people.
Most people never encounter enough money to actually challenge their morality.
Yes there are plenty who don't advertise it and don't slap their names onto foundations. Keanu Reeves is an example that comes to mind.
Fairy tale? Anon u/dec3169 is describing what Donald Trump has done - just some of the good he's done!
https://townhall.com/columnists/lizcrokin/2016/07/10/trump-does-the-unthinkable-n2190160
Your contention that every person who works hard to earn their wealth should give it all away, that they all have dark secrets they should atone for is not only radical but unreasonable and simplistic. Had DJT not been so successful he never would have been able to position himself to make such a significant impact for the good of humanity.
If it were true that everyone who earns wealth turns to the dark side (corruption) humanity would have been wiped out long ago. Money/power will corrupt many men, but certainly not all. It's beholden upon us to be discerning about a man's character irrespective of his wealth.
And then how is wealth determined? Are we talking Elon Musk rich? How about tens of billions? Hundreds of millions, tens of millions, a few million? You can buy a modest house with cash if you had $2.5 million in the bank. You could buy an island with $100 million in the bank. Then if you start helping people financially, where would it end? Could you handle being called a cruel person because you stop handing out money? There's way too much here, and if wealth falls in to your lap a la Beverly Hillbillies, what can corrupt you?
If an evil person wants to act as they want without consequence, they need power. If they're a smart evil person, they don't act on their wants when they don't have power.
This is why there's tons of psychopaths in high positions, they are motivated by the power that will let them be evil fucks without consequence.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Here a man that understands.
We actually live in a really sick situation because the world runs on an abstraction of power that can be unreasonably accumulated into a central power.
If we were smart, our politicians would be monks who live in austerity, instead we set up a system designed to promote wealthy narcissists.
I didn't say get rid of the free market or trade or private property. I just suggested that the abstraction in the form of money is corrupting and bad and people get defensive.
People want to be rich. They want to live like kings, which requires underpaid servants. They don't understand the luxury we already have in the first world. They think we're poor.
We're actually spoiled.
The sad part is a lot of our political establishment has in their minds that they live an austere lifestyle because they compare it to those they rub elbows with in the private sector who fund their campaigns. Brandon is a perfect example. From a 1974 article:
That $42.5K is over $250K in 2022 dollars BTW. He has been obsessed with money from the get go.
The more I think about it, the more I don't think it was an accident that the senator from the banking state came out of nowhere. (Very Obama like in his trajectory. Funny how he ended up being his VP.)
https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/
To be fair though, the average run of the mill doctor makes more than 250k per year… 250k per year isn’t much when you have other nations tempting you with 10 of millions in bribes.
The only thing I imagine about a mountain relocation is Jesus saying enough faith in my Father u can ask the tallest mountain to fall in the deepest crevice in the Ocean. Faith.
Also I love the 2Pac lyrics in ‘Letter to the President’ song : My Heaviest words can move a mountain
God blessed and tasked many kings with such abundance of massively wealth kingdoms of wealth because it was noble to be able to feed the servants and there’s nothing wrong with it inherently. Kudos for typing the “love of money..” above. Ur almost there.
When the new testament had Zacchaeus the tax collector, And Jesus explained that the elderly woman who is the most generous - despite being the tinyest amount. because she gave ALL that she had.