Each one of us thinks we are very important, as important as the next guy, and we are, but a person is awarded money to purchase resources from the ground for doing good and a small amount of elitists think they do the greatest good.
Measuring a person’s worth in this way may be an accurate reward scale if we were worth our weight in gold. But our money is not backed by actual gold. It is in fact wrapped up in the accumulation of steel, wood, rubber, glass, oil, wine, crustaceans and all other resources that we all consume. Wrapped up, except for the amount of paper gold the wealthy are sitting on. Our worth should be measured by our moral worthiness when recognizing our own potential for sin as opposed to our crusade against others limitations or propensity to do harm.
While the elitist might gain popularity with other elites by impressing upon each other the accumulation of resources they all enjoy, it does not guarantee them a favorable universal reputation. They may never be well known for their achievements by the rest of us, who envy the idea of purchasing power, but not where the elites are in relation to the stars. Instead, extravagance that is displayed increases the intimidation factor to the common class as they distance themselves from being distinguished themselves. Everybody would like to be comfortably rich, and we are certain how we would live out the rest of our days in abundance, but the truth is that by gaining such wealth comes obligation.
The elitist is not legally bound to share their wealth with the people, but in opposition they are morally bound to indulge in prejudice barter with other elites. I challenge anybody to sit in a room with your peers and deny a stack of money that is beneficial to your most important causes and you don’t have to give up any of the stack plus you get to take it to the cleaners where it grows exponentially and no one else will ever know how much you were handed. You are then obligated to give a portion of that exponential growth back to your peers but only after you do the same favor for each of your immediate family.
Maybe this isn’t how it works but it sure is not fun distancing myself from the notion.
Francis Erich McElroy 