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If you think having more money than 99% of the people that have ever existed on earth is not greed... not even god could save you.
You could give out 99% of that money and live a lavish life.
If greed is subjective then sins are subjective. Therefore not paying back your debts is subjective. There's no objective meaning to anything, it seems.
So you're saying that if you're wealthy to an extreme, that not even giving to charity, helping the needy, will save you from the definition/title of being greedy?
Okay.
There's thousands of people who need to have their salaries increased. Aren't they the needy?
Pay the workers, ffs. Else, you're greedy, yes.
This is not the argument you think it is.
Those who run charities are not the holiest humans either. A fraction of what is sent to charities goes to those they claim to help.
Hey, I agree. If I was a business man and I was making a cool $1M per year, whatever other profits I make beyond that would easily go to the company and its employees. $1M per year is a very healthy income to live on. However, I would not ever violate another person's right to own whatever they own just because they have an excess of it. Because that too could happen to me. If they gained that excess by means of crime (breaking actual laws), that's a different story.
And I also agree regarding charities.. for example, I don't give my money to the red cross. I'm at work so I don't have access to my bookmarks, but there's a site that lists all charities and what percentages of donations goes to the organization itself vs the people who need it.
The problem with having this much money is the power that it brings. A life of modesty brings you way closer to god than anything else. Billionaires are sometimes praised but poor who dare use tricks to gain wealth are called sinners and immoral people. We're stuck playing a game with rules that are different for everyone.
Because that too could happen to me.
Temporarily embarrassed millionaire :/
Yes- especially people like Bill Gates, who gives to charities he controls, so basically he's still benefiting from the power his insane wealth brings, but gets to pretend he's helping the world.
The Baha'i Faith was told explicitly that the first step towards True World Peace is universal education for all. The second step is the abolition of extremes of poverty and wealth.
Greed will kill us all, if we don't stop it.
That's The Hidden Imam that said that.