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Originally Posted by Angela  Would you state that belief in a simple way, please? Is it that
Wealth = Destruction? |
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In my opinion, wealth = greater opportunity to help society. There are zillions of things you can do to help people if you have money, many of which aren't nearly as feasible if you don't have money.
For instance, rescuing people from having their houses foreclosed, just by buying them the house and giving it to them for free. Or, rescuing people from being buried in credit card late fees and overlimit fees by paying off their debts for them. With money, one could also fund things like research into technology to solve environmental problems. I'd love to do stuff like that if I were rich...
Anyhow, my outlook on wealth hasn't yet magically caused me get wealthy, but, at least I don't think I have any fundamental inner resistance to getting wealthy.
Hope that helps.
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Let me explain this particular belief a bit more.
Basically it states:
If I help society, I expend dollars, those dollars inevitably produce more pollution and damage to the environment, the more dollars (or value) is created in society the faster the pollution and damage pile up eventually leading us to a societal collapse (or at the very least a very very very nasty situation).
Now the problem I have with this belief is that 'dollars=pollution/damage to environment' belief is the crux of the whole argument. Now everything we produce requires a expenditure of energy, creating a laptop, creating a car, driving a car, using a laptop etc.. Most of the energy we produce is carbon based leading to more emission, a lot of it also causes direct environmental problems when they destroy nature for oil/coal. So the more value I create the more damage I do.
Can you see how this can give me some troubles?
