For most, money and the need to earn it, represents livelihood, everything from buying food, paying rent, paying bills and if they're lucky maybe saving for retirement, emergencies, and the occasional vacation.
Then there are the 1%
The money they have far exceeds their needs for food, shelter, education, retirement and security for themselves and their families.
Yet they are driven to obtain more.
The driver is power.
Even in giving, there is power.
Having attained that power, what do the 1% do with it?
Do they create opportunities for others to enjoy better lives? Do they create charities, educational institutions, open parks? Do they embrace the arts and support our culture? Some do.
Then there are those very wealthy people who cheat business partners and employees. They ruthlessly work to deprive the underclasses of a livable wage, just to improve their profit-margin and thus control more wealth, to wield more power. They are addicted to power. They use it to hoard wealth. They show little remorse or compassion to their fellow man.
They can't take it with them. They live in the best houses, wear fine clothes, and enjoy the best of everything. They use and exploit people. Simple creatures suffer under them, and Mother Nature is destroyed in the name of short term profits. They live in great wealth.
But in spirit these folks are morally impoverished.
It is said Money cannot buy happiness. But poverty is the shame of the wealthy.
Those who could have helped humanity and instead helped themselves, they are the lowest class of all. They have gained nothing in this life. They shall be the saddest souls in the next world.
If you have an abundance of anything, work, money, love, then you are hoarding it. In all cases you must learn to share.
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Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
- Jesus Christ
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