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sin is to be without compassion, without love.
I help a dying friend to the point I have trouble paying my own bills. I still have my own familial responsibilities however. Starve myself to death and my friend has no one to turn to. God isn't paying her bills. Wealth should be "piled up" so that it can invest in the community. Business owners, large or small, who use their businesses as personal piggy banks aren't doing their job. They are stealing from their own business and the community at large. Capitalism doesn't have to be equated with theft, though it often is used that way. There can be such a thing as socially responsible capitalism.
It wasn't really their capabilities, though. They were just the slaves who showed up at the meeting. That some were talented and one was not was irrelevant. The average citizen in the king's kingdom did not have the "privilege" of getting investment funds.
I dunno, the Black Plague evened things out a bit.
There are plenty of capitalistic businesses in this country who want handouts to maintain a status quo that true capitalism would say they don't deserve.
Capitalism is NOT socially responsible. At all. As it's only responsibility is to maximizing the profits returned to capital investor. To make it socially responsible, we would have to infuse it with a substantial degree of socialist ideology, and social control over the business venture being invested in. But then it would not be capitalism, anymore. Capitalism and socialism are both defined by who controls the means (and purpose) of production. And that means that the capital investor either does or does not have that control, and for his own benefit. If he does not, then it's not 'capitalism', anymore. That doesn't mean we've eliminated capital investment. It just means that the investors don't get to have effective control of the business enterprise, and gain all the profit.
Actually, that has been found to be untrue. Studies have been done, and even some documentaries filmed, on the question of quantified human happiness relative to industry, technology, and so on. And it turns out that people living in societies WITHOUT all this "stuff" that the wealthier societies like ours think we have to have, are far happier than we are, over all. Seems that what really matters in terms if human happiness is having those basic necessities met, easily, and without a lot of social competition and strife. People who lived in relatively primitive cultures, but on temperate coastlines where they had year round access to a variety of healthy foods without expending a great deal of effort to get them, were by far the happiest among the global human population. Seems people enjoy each others company when they don't have to compete with each other like wild dogs to ensure their own survival.
Turns out your are right. Cooperation, and sharing, makes for a far happier social collective than forcing everyone to compete with each other to see who gets to live like kings and gods while everyone else struggles to survive.
He accepted their cooperation and generosity, and he shared what he had to give. Sounds about right to me.
It seems to me he gave us everything he had to give, even his own life, so that we might see and understand that love and forgiveness, and kindness and generosity, are the real pathway to both our individual and our collective 'salvation'. (That's salvation is from ourselves, by the way.)