Thread: Is making/having money a bad thing on SRP?

Good question, Hillie; I'll also be watching your thread to see how people weigh in with their opinions.

I mentioned in my winning the lottery thread that I'm not one who believes that wealth should be involuntarily redistributed to the less wealthy (aside from taxes since we're all essentially forced to pay them). Is being wealthy "good" or "bad"? I personally have don't have a burning desire to be wealthy and wealth does not impress me. I don't aspire to be wealthy or feel inferior for not having wealth just as I don't view the wealthy as superior to me. CHARACTER is of true value in my opinion; a wealthy person can be a wonderful person or they can be a jerk, loser, pathetic and pitiful just as anyone else can be.

Money is an interesting concept to say the least.

I know there are people that IMO have some pretty extreme and negative views against the wealthy. I don't consider myself one of them. It does intrigue me a bit that some such people argue that the uber-rich spanning generations could not have amassed such massive wealth without being nefarious, unethical, etc in dealings along the way; essentially criminal. I don't even want to go there since the last thing I have time for in my life is to spend a significant amount of it "researching" such conspiracy. I'm simply saying such a concept is interesting to me.

Short answer:.....for me, wealth ultimately would be bad. For others it may be simply wonderful in all ways.

Chris L