Reply to Has wanting money discouraged you from public service?

Forum Index » Money and Finances

Reply to "Has wanting money discouraged you from public service?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why folks on this thread equate pursuing money - even through the revolving door of government service, to be evil. High positions and personal fortunes can do far more good than a single individual who puts in 30 years helping the homeless. Money allows fir the hiring of an army of such individuals. Just look at the philanthropic activities of wealthy people throughout history. 
 [/quote]

Wealthy people throughout history have almost unanimously acquired their fortunes from doing terrible things. Humanity has always been better off with many normal people doing good things than by a few powerful criminals seeking to wash the blood from their hands after a lifetime of cruelty by "philanthropy."  However, as someone posting on an American site largely devoted to consumerism, you've also been raised on a steady diet of money worship, and it's only natural you'd see the world as being improved by inequality, rather than by equality. But on the off-chance you're actually interested in seeing the world differently, we don't need any more billionaires trying to shape global policies. [/quote]

Quite a generalization there about rich people - almost as if you've never known any who built their fortunes on hard work, creativity and building things people need.  What you see as "terrible things" may not be terrible to others (not just the rich person doing them).

If you want equality, go look at how countries like the Soviet Union, Venezuela and other failed communist states have fared.  I'm all for equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.  But you earn that opportunity based on merit - not by some aspect of your genetics that may not have had any effect on the opportunities available to you.

Billionaires, Kings, Queens, Warlords, Nobility, etc... have always shaped global policies - and always will.  Even the most saintly "community organizer" can be corrupted by power, particularly if fueled by a preexisting ideology.  This is simply human nature.  Power corrupts.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics