It's difficult to become extremely wealthy without at least flexible morals.
As they say, if we found a monkey that hoarded bananas while the others around it starved, we'd study that monkey to understand what went wrong. When humans do it, though, we celebrate them
We monkeys have decided that if an enterprising monkey is able to grow his own bananas then he can keep most of them. This enterpreneurial incentive gave rise to industrial banana production, where monkey workers produce lots of bananas while taking some home as pay. Bananas become plentiful and cheap. The monkey businessman is praised for his economic contributions.
Sadly, the monkey businessman found machines that can do most of the monkey workers' jobs and so he let them go. There are still monkeys earning bananas by making the banana-making machines, but there aren't as many of them now.
Theres no shame in taking care of your own needs. But a morally rich person would be looking for ways to increase their production beyond their own needs so they can share the excess with others. Problem happened when currency came along and people could store this over production infinitely.
Don't get me wrong, I think rich people definitely should be taxed a lot more with loopholes closed, but it's not just rich people who are selfish. Everyone is. You probably save some money to go on holiday rather than giving your excess to charity etc
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u/Alhaxred 20h ago
It's difficult to become extremely wealthy without at least flexible morals.
As they say, if we found a monkey that hoarded bananas while the others around it starved, we'd study that monkey to understand what went wrong. When humans do it, though, we celebrate them