Is it Okay to be Rich? | Good Money

It may seem like Good Money is advocating eliminating all wealth. Is being rich sinful? Bad? Jacob Imam and Andrew Willard Jones provide some nuance to the question of being rich.
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[@danielmarquis7693]

Our rich people don't know how to be rich. It's sad - I can't understand why they're not financing great works of art and culture, great cathedrals. We need more magnificence.

[@snakeotter]

Didn’t the CEO of dominos build Ave Maria college?

[@simplydanny]

I have to say that I thought about a long time ago, of entrepreneurs who live sacrificially and are truly committed to the mission of the church, and to hear these ideas hashed out it’s so refreshing. These ideas need to spread far and wide.

[@peaceandjoy2568]

Thank you for this great discussion. I pray that many will hear it and discover the invaluable social teachings of the Catholic Church and be reminded of the dignity of every human being especially those who are the least amongst us. May we all have a holy fear of the Lord and know that Christ Who will come as Holy Judge at His Second Coming will ask each of us to render an account on how we managed the goods He had given to each one.

[@StayFaithful13]

Loved this discussion. One question that didn't really get answered is, how do you know if you're wealthy?

[@ricardom.6850]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on social mobility. Is their any moral benefit to a society with more vs. less? It appears that there is more social mobility in our societies today than in medieval times.

[@thamill3826]

I wonder if this isn’t a question with an answer independent of circumstances. If there were a truly distributive society you wouldn’t want quick widespread mobility bc it could be some people accumulating at the expense of others (unless whole groups learned how to produce better etc). But in a society like 18th c France or Brazil today, where few people have a lot and a lot have very little, social mobility could be very good and something to expand.

[@cactoidjim1477]

Could even America's lower classes be considered "rich" when compared on a global scale?

[@JamesHudon]

I'd like to understand the point at 35:06 more. Andrew is justifying a specific case of passive income. Like a class of people that don't "work" but are producing "literature", "music", "art", as long as those things don't become "material"... does he mean that there could be a class of "artists" let's say, and it's best for their art not to have a price tag on it? And so the society funds their work, and their work is left priceless? But they're still working... presumably earning a wage per project or per hour or something, so I don't get his point.

[@Kitiwake]

"God wants your poverty, not you abundance". Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta

[@stocktonking12]

The attitude of poverty can be held at the same time of having productive property and resources to help others