Wealth and Morality

[Nakosis]

Can the two coexist?

I don't have a hard fast opinion on this. I'm not wealthy so can't speak from experience.
Not religious so I don't have any hard fast rules regarding morals.

Mostly curious about the opinion of others and I so might be convinced towards one position.

 

[Nakosis]

Scott had been self-conscious about his wealth since he was a child. He recalled feeling sensitive to comments classmates would make about the size of his family’s house. In college he became a leftist and obscured his background as much as possible, but classmates ultimately found out that he was a “secret rich guy” and taunted him about the family’s company, which was associated with abuses of workers’ rights.
How to be rich and morally worthy: the dilemma of wealthy New Yorkers

 

[metis]

I think they can co-exist but the challenge is for one of wealth not to make more wealth their main goal, and then to also be benevolent with what they do have.

 

[Altfish]

What's the quote from The Bible?

Matthew 19:24

"... it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of A needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"

 

[Nakosis]

For socialist-leaning Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez, de Blasio, Bernie Sanders, and others, high levels of income or wealth and large disparities in wealth distribution cannot be justified at all. From their egalitarian perspective, such disparities are, in and of themselves, immoral. From the Wall Street Journal’s perspective, the morality of having large sums of wealth seems to rest on how it is used. The money is in the “right hands” if those who have it give a significant portion of it away for the “greater good.” In other words, if these folks were not so generous with what they’ve earned, well, maybe de Blasio would be right.
The truth about wealth, morality | Robesonian

 

[Rival]

Yes, they can co-exist. My mother's one time step-father is a wealthy landowner and a great bloke.

 

[robocop (actually)]

Can the two coexist?

I don't have a hard fast opinion on this. I'm not wealthy so can't speak from experience.
Not religious so I don't have any hard fast rules regarding morals.

Mostly curious about the opinion of others and I so might be convinced towards one position.

When Jesus talked about the rich man and the eye of the needle, he said, "but with God all things are possible."

 

[Nakosis]

I think they can co-exist but the challenge is for one of wealth not to make more wealth their main goal, and then to also be benevolent with what they do have.

Though I suspect it may be possible to hide the truth of that from one's self.

 

[Nakosis]

When Jesus talked about the rich man and the eye of the needle, he said, "but with God all things are possible."

So rich atheists are out of luck?

Mayhaps better to be a poor atheist than a rich one.

 

[robocop (actually)]

So rich atheists are out of luck?

Mayhaps better to be a poor atheist than a rich one.

It depends on if they would have accepted Christ had He been properly introduced.

 

[Quiddity]

I think they can co-exist but the challenge is for one of wealth not to make more wealth their main goal, and then to also be benevolent with what they do have.

Pretty much said what I was thinking.

 

[Eddi]

What's the quote from The Bible?

Matthew 19:24

"... it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of A needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"

That scripture...

You beat me to it!

 

[Tambourine]

Anyone who is nice to me personally has great morals so very definitely yes.

 

[ChristineM]

New Can the two coexist?

Yes, i consider myself a moral person (in the human sense, not necessarily the religious sense) and been broke and wealthy, the financial status in no way made any difference to my morality.

 

[Altfish]

That scripture...

You beat me to it!

Us atheists know our Bible ... why do you think we became atheists?

 

[MNoBody]

Can the two coexist?

I don't have a hard fast opinion on this. I'm not wealthy so can't speak from experience.
Not religious so I don't have any hard fast rules regarding morals.

Mostly curious about the opinion of others and I so might be convinced towards one position.

wealth isn't measured by quantity, but qualitatively, having seen people who are poor in wealth by that measure give the shirt off their back and go with out to help someone or share their last bit of food which constituted their "wealth" at that moment....
who gave more, the widow or the rich man?

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Depends what we are calling wealthy but:
*points at signature.*
There is nobody who becomes a billionaire through moral means, without benefiting heavily from exploitation.

 

[sun rise]

By wealth, I take the OP to mean financially rich because as pointed out, there are other kinds of wealth.

Financial wealth can be used morally if one is not attached to it. There are some who feel that "He who dies with the most toys wins." Others try to use their money to benefit others.

 

[Quintessence]

What kind of wealth and whose standards of morality?

I don't really do morality; I do virtue. For some, there is virtue in making do with very little. For others, there is virtue in making do with much. Difference of values, mostly.

 

[Kenny]

Can the two coexist?

I don't have a hard fast opinion on this. I'm not wealthy so can't speak from experience.
Not religious so I don't have any hard fast rules regarding morals.

Mostly curious about the opinion of others and I so might be convinced towards one position.

ABSOLUTELY!!

Money is really amoral. You can be poor and immoral and you can be rich and immoral. Rich, however, gives you a wider birth to be immoral and hide it. IMO

But you can be rich and moral without a problem.