The Greedy Poor
Most poor people do not seem to understand the most basic concept of money:
The amount of money someone has is roughly how much value they have contributed to society. (excluding those who don’t ask for it: non profits, volunteers etc)
Take for example a book seller on a street. He sells a book to a customer for $10. In return that customer has received more than $10 of value. That customer could feel that book is worth $50 if he thinks he got a really good deal, or $10 if he feels it was just worth the money, but if it was only worth $5 to the customer he wouldn’t have bought the book – because he’d be giving away more money than he thinks its worth.
So in return for earning (not taking) $10 that book seller has given over $10 of value to this person.
Do you really think this book seller is doing a bad thing for society for earning that $10? Should he now be forced to give it to others because he has earned it?
If you’re thinking logically you’d realize there is absolutely no reason why he should be forced to give that $10 away. He earned it fair and square and in return gave more than $10 of value to this person, he did some good in the world to earn that $10 and thus he deserves it.
This is all big business is doing; but on a much larger scale.
So if a business has earned $1 million in a year how much value have they given to society? To their customers? Over $1 million of value!
This is something to be truly celebrated, here comes someone who has built a company and has given over a million dollars of value to the world!
Yet a lot of people don’t feel that way, they think “oh its earned a million dollars, therefore it’s taking money from society and should pay some back”. And they slander it, completely forgetting that this is a company which is helping a great many people with their daily lives.
How do I know this company is helping people? They are paying it millions of dollars, people don’t just pay someone money if it doesn’t improve their life in some way.
You know what this comes down to?
Greed.
Simply put, these poor people (although they don’t feel like it because “they’re the good guys” *rolleyes*) are greedy, and feel they are entitled to money simply because someone else has more than them, ignoring the fact that these businesses don’t owe them jack shit (and have done a lot more good for the world then they ever have).
I still have not seen a single legitimate reason why companies owe anyone anything other than ‘oh they have lots of money so they can afford it’. So really it just comes down to the poor being greedy and feeling that just because someone has more than them they deserve a piece without doing anything for it.
If the business is polluting / destroying the earth or doing damage to society in some way (harming people etc) then sure they should pay for their actions, but other than that, there is no reason why they owe anyone anything.
If you want business owners to contribute to helping the poor here’s a radical new concept: How about you do it yourself. Lead by example.
Go ahead and turn your skills into something valuable to others, earn some more money, then give it away. It’s win win for everyone and you get to contribute back even more than you are currently.
Why do you believe that you or anyone else is entitled to something for nothing? If you really care about the state of the world, get off your high horse, stop trying to cut down the tall poppies and start taking action to help society.
What the world needs is more people giving back and less people getting jealous of others (and subsequently not doing anything themselves because they feel inadequate). Are you going to be an action taker, a doer, a helper? Or are you going to be yet another complainer?