Deference To The Rich
December 29, 2016
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By Dawn C. Moulton

Deference To The Rich

People tend to look at rich people and wish they had their money. The nice car, house, bank account, amazing vacations, the yacht, things, and more things. And, we tend to think rich people must have worked really hard to get those nice things, and some of them have. We tend to think they deserve those nice things, and some of them do. We may even wonder what’s wrong with us, why can’t we have those nice things? Why can’t we be rich? But rarely do we consider character when we view the rich. Their clothes seem to tell us all we want to hear. The glitz and the glamour blinds us to what’s beneath.

Nobody questions too much how rich people get their money? How about the CEO who makes millions and millions of dollars while their full-time employees can’t adequately feed their families or live in a decent place to the point where they need food stamps and subsidized housing? Or the manufactures who make inferior products and sells an extended warranty WHEN you are buying the new product. Or, the investor crooks who make a profit by coming up with schemes, some legal, to get your hard earned money away from you. Or, companies with a “charitable” arm that use that leeway to reap profits and exploit people? We have people in companies who hide behind the company’s legal entity to do horrible things, often to their customers, and they get away with it. And, they make money, lots of it. Ask yourself: do you really want to do what it takes to have money when you have to steal, deceive and be unfair to get it?

Yet, a person with money is usually considered smart, someone to be looked up to. We give so much deference to people who have money. We want to be in their presence more. Why? Are we hoping they might share some of their wealth with us? With this whole 99% v. 1% thing, that’s not working out very well. Maybe we show deference to help us make the “right” connections. Well, seems they like connecting with each other. So why do we do it?

We are seeing what lies behind the lives of some of the rich and famous. We see the decadence; the parties flowing with drugs and girls. The illegal enterprises they control while they attempt to keep their image squeaky clean. The biggest mistake we make is confusing being rich monetarily with being rich. We need to stop giving deference to people just because they have money. We need to see behind the green. Better yet, we need to redefine the word rich so it includes not just things but character.

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