The United States has always pushed the concept of wealth as the ultimate of social status and power, and that poverty as a shameful state of being and those who suffer in poverty should be pitied or shunned. Not directly defined, but strongly implied.
From its founding, only wealthy men held power and leadership positions in the US. They reaped all the benefits such as the right to vote, own land, escape accountability, and make law and policy decisions for governing the rest. This ideology of wealth made an impression in all social circles from the media, to entertainment, sports, education, and Hollywood.
The desire to be wealthy has permeated the minds of people and become the underlying motivation in most people’s lives. Poverty, on the other hand, has been regarded under the most degrading of social standings, such as being a loser, being cursed by God, and being the individual fault of lazy people. The stigma to wealth and poverty is extremely pronounced in American society as associated with who is better than who. This is the stamp of capitalism gone astray.
Many people can identify with living in poverty or at least close to the poverty line, or just getting by from pay check to pay check, but not many people can identify with the lifestyle of the wealthy. Wealth looks glamorous of course and worry free, but there are hidden costs to being wealthy that digs deep into the psyche of the mind bringing with it a psychological emptiness and a distortion of reality.
This unfortunate psyche is not broadcast to the world because people of wealth have a massive level of pride, and they do not want their secret disparities exposed. They would rather keep the charade going as long as they can to fool the average person. Though some wealthy people use their success quietly and indiscreetly, we are seeing the worse of the wealthy use their money and power to manipulate society, politics, and the future. Some of the disparities that come with extreme wealth are the following:
They become detached from the common cause. Once all of a person’s needs are met, they are faced with an exorbitant amount of time in their lives. Most people’s time is consumed daily from the time they get up in the morning to the time to go to bed. They have a purpose each day in chores, errands and task to complete, whether it be getting to work on time to picking up their children from school, there is always something to do in the life of the average person.
This is not so with the wealthy. They have people to do these things for them most of the time and in the space of empty time periods, they are engaging in extra curricula activities most people wish they could do, so they feel the need to pursue anything that will occupy the empty spaces. The rest of their time is consumed by the thoughts of their wealth. Competition becomes a game; expansion and collecting becomes a hobby, and eventually they become paranoid as to maintaining and protecting their money against any perceived enemy.
Paranoia magnified becomes an obsession. And obsession with people who are not within their circle. Because they do not participate in the everyday task that most people do, they are constantly searching for something to make them relevant. They end up thinking a lot about life, people, relationships, their past and their future. Nothing is actually attached to reality or the struggles of everyday life. So their problems become menial as compared to real life.
There are many things happening around them in daily society but they cannot focus on these things because it is a world they have escaped. World peace, hunger, injustice, war, and the problems people face everyday become foreign to them because they are detached. Their minds cannot relate to what people go through each day. They have a set of problems most people would only dream of. Not having to worry about bills, what your children are learning, any threats of crime, discrimination, persecution, are all a past thing and a new set of problems arise.
Many would claim they would love to have the problems of the wealthy but they do not truly understand what those problems are. Another problem in the world of wealth is a sudden dimensional transfer from thoughts about the afterlife and a creator to an indifference to spirituality. With that transfer comes a reluctance to seek truth, goodwill toward others, and contentment. They become obsessed with gaining more and not losing what they have.
Within the walls of wealth are many temptations, extreme worldviews and ideologies that are nontraditional and sometimes outside the realities of history. Without a conscience toward a creator, wealthy people lose concern for ordinary people and dive into other dimensions that offer new theories of life and humanity. They seek the unknown to discover something new beyond what they have already accomplished, believing they have met the goal of life’s purpose by having wealth as a reward.
Many wealthy people often seek to reenter normal society to feel a since of belonging but they cannot because they do not share the same purpose as others. They try hard to fit in through music trends, speaking engagements, attending popular events and having personal interviews on common media outlets. But they never actually connect with society again. They are too consumed with maintaining their wealth and demand more from those who they hire to produce that wealth.
Workers rights become a non-concern because they figure as long as the final product is making them wealthy, workers can apparently do more to increase that wealth. Workers then become a commodity and an addition to their portfolio. They have no understanding of the day to day the workers go through. They unconsciously increase their burdens, which increases their own riches. They never stop to think of what will happen to their wealth if the workers decided to stop working.
The wealthy know that the workers cannot retaliate against them because they have the law and the entire economic system on their side; the politicians, judges, and the courts. Once they have grasp hold of this privilege of power, they do not see any problems with the way they control the workers. If workers decide to buck against their rules, they immediately retreat to vengeful tactics to keep them in line and the protocol running.
Wealthy people are to be warned constantly of their greed and treatment of the poor and working class. They must be admonished to take care of their workers and help those in need and to advanced society toward the well being of the workers and to not oppress them. They must understand not to hoard, and to always offer opportunity to the populous instead of controlling them at their demand, and that the resources of the earth are given to us all and are not the property of one or a few individuals alone.
They must realize that wealth is not a means to an end but is there to further the progress of the world and to use wealth to bring peace and prosperity to others. If they neglect these things and use their wealth and power to oppress, they will suffer the sicknesses of life that come under the strain of wealth. The worse thing about being wealthy is that they are sure to increase their sorrows if they cannot reattach themselves to the common cause of humanity.
“They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.” Jeremiah 5:28.
“…perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 1 Timothy 6:5-10.
“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.” James 5:1-6.
“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.” 1 Timothy 6:17-19.
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