Why We Worship The Rich

In America, and much of the world, money is the yardstick by which all things are measured. The familiar rejoinder “if you’re so smart how come you’re not rich” says it all. Even intelligence can be questioned if one’s bank account isn’t sufficiently large. Until we realize that money and wealth, at their best, are just a measure of how well you accumulate money and at their worst how well you’ve succeeded in taking it from someone else (legally or otherwise), until then, we will worship the rich.

 

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