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Some of the poorest people in the US would be considered wealthy in other unfortunate countries. The lifestyle of the average American in many ways exceeds that of the wealthiest people who lived a century ago. Instead of celebrating these wonderful facts, we tend to compare ourselves to the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Longing for more. The Church of the Mighty Dollar creates expectations that are way too high, which results in an unhealthy lust for money, and fear of loss. All this can get in the way of enjoying the moment and the other things that have great value around us, like our relationships with family, friends, and community.

I think that it is more correct to say that ‘Money can buy some happiness, the rest is up to you.’

Giving people money never solves the problem that makes people poor? I’m sorry, and know I love your site, but I’m shocked to see this kind of generalization so cruelly applied to a broad (and growing) swath of our country.

When manufacturing jobs leave, they take everything away but the people left trying to struggle to get ahead. Illness, and medical bills, a job loss, a sick child, an ailing parent–all of these things are mitigating factors.

There is no inherent sin in poverty, anymore than exists in other stratas of society. The logic used above could make the case that “people who have amassed more money than they could spend in several incarnations are craven, amoral, manipulative war criminals and profiteers–how will they solve their problem of being so rich they don’t have to care about the rest of humanity unless we take their money away from them?”

Now while this may be a solid argument for a subset of this demographic, its patently unfair to extend the logic that works so well with neo-cons to the wider population of wealthy people.

Remember when Hugh Grant hooker embarrassment several years back? I recently read an interview with that same woman, and she thanked Hugh Grant for inadvertently putting her children through private schools in good neighborhoods, and for turning a prison of hopelessness into a solid, secure and prosperous life.

Money got thrown, things got done. Just because there were inherent flaws in the Great Society doesn’t mean that providing a net for the least among us isn’t a valuable, important thing to do. The superiority we might feel for our own success is likely more vulnerable than we ourselves feel.

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