The Rich and the Poor

January 18, 2014 at 12:57 pm (Uncategorized) (culture, faith, greed, life, lifestyle, people, politics, society, spirituality, thoughts)

1. All people have needs, and they are quite consistent across different people. We need about 2000 calories of food, some clothes, shelter and water. We have a spectrum of medical needs.

2. I knew a person who would immensely despise anyone that would have an unfulfilled need and ask for help. She would also despise people who would have, or seem to have, little money. She would have and extensive mental list of jobs which, according to her, made a person unworthy of respect. Examples of it were being a cleaning lady, elementary school teacher, or being a representative for a company or political group. She found certain jobs – cleaning, for example, so despicable, that not only would she never take such a job, but would actually prefer to live in a filthy place and eat off dirty dishes when she couldn’t make other people do it for her. It seems she felt like doing something like that would damage her somehow.

3. When you think of it, if you acquire anything you want or need in a way that is in accordance with your own morals, everything else really shouldn’t matter.

4. The person i wrote about came to value only money. She found it worthwhile to hang out with those who had enough, and avoided anyone who she didn’t consider ‘rich’ enough.

5. Greed for money seems to be based on the belief that – if you acquire something indirectly, you are therefore a more valuable person.

6. Money has become a culturally accepted way to clean your hands of blood. Compare the following scenarios:

a) A person walks down the road, shoots a stranger, takes his money, and walks off.

b) A person, knowing the consequences of smoking, works in a cigarette factory.

Another person buys the cigarettes they make. He and his daughter die of smoke-related illness.

Except for some numbers being calculated, the scenario is the same.

7. People who are greedy for money believe that when they will acquire enough money, it will make them faultless and divine – after all, they will not have those desperate, human, carnal needs anymore.

But humans are of the same human nature from life to death.