Why is that evil people with bad intentions end up in wealth? (rappers, drug dealers, etc) I know a few people who are good hearted people and have been for pretty much their entire lives yet they struggle financially all the time. So many rappers brag about their wealth, use terrible language and they are paid to do it.
Example.
I have a friend that crashed my car just over a year ago and left me with nothing. The bank ended up repo-ing the car all damaged since I stopped paying for it. It costed my credit for 7 years now. Yesterday I saw him rolling in his new RX-8 all done up...
I'm not sure how rappers and drug dealers are evil people and I imagine the vast majority of those that set out on these careers paths end up with very little money, incarcerated or dead.
Puritan pastor Matthew Henry who wrote an entire commentary on the Bible says that if wealth were good for us, God would give it to us. Wealth often becomes more of a snare than anything and draws our hearts away from God while having to rely on God to provide for us strengthens our faith.
As far as drug dealers, rappers and the like, look at how many of them end up dead or in prison. Not the life a Christian should want.
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The desire to be rich is one of the biggest reasons the world is in chaos as it is. A desire to outdo your fellow man, in order to much more wealthy. Just because they are wealthy, does not mean they are happy.
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The desire to be rich is one of the biggest reasons the world is in chaos as it is. A desire to outdo your fellow man, in order to much more wealthy.
This just seems absurd to me. Wealth is desired for numerous reasons, for one in order to obtain goods on the market. Like it or not, there is no alternative to the profit/loss system. People receive income on the market according to their discounted marginal revenue product, which is to say how much other people value their services. (To the extent that the market is free - and it is not at present.) If you disagree with people's tastes that's one thing, but wealth and the desire for wealth are not the problem - they are, in fact, the only solution to the problem of economizing scarce resources and producing valued services.
Money does not corrupt people, people corrupt money.
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Puritan pastor Matthew Henry who wrote an entire commentary on the Bible says that if wealth were good for us, God would give it to us. Wealth often becomes more of a snare than anything and draws our hearts away from God while having to rely on God to provide for us strengthens our faith.
As far as drug dealers, rappers and the like, look at how many of them end up dead or in prison. Not the life a Christian should want.
Puritan pastor Matthew Henry who wrote an entire commentary on the Bible says that if wealth were good for us, God would give it to us. Wealth often becomes more of a snare than anything and draws our hearts away from God while having to rely on God to provide for us strengthens our faith.
As far as drug dealers, rappers and the like, look at how many of them end up dead or in prison. Not the life a Christian should want.
I agree Too many people get lost in their wealth and desire more and more, often times at the cost of others. In that way wealth can be a snare.
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I agree with alice. The money is not the evil, but the greed and envy and jealousy that accompany the money. Alot of people are under the false impression that money and wealth are proportional to happiness. Money is of this world.
Jesus warned about it when telling people of gathering wealth on earth when that passes away, but store up your treasures in heaven instead.
You die monetarily broke either way, rich or poor so its somewhat ironic that it happens to be such a pursuit for people.
Why is that evil people with bad intentions end up in wealth? (rappers, drug dealers, etc) I know a few people who are good hearted people and have been for pretty much their entire lives yet they struggle financially all the time. So many rappers brag about their wealth, use terrible language and they are paid to do it.
Example.
I have a friend that crashed my car just over a year ago and left me with nothing. The bank ended up repo-ing the car all damaged since I stopped paying for it. It costed my credit for 7 years now. Yesterday I saw him rolling in his new RX-8 all done up...
Your thoughts?
So there aren't evil people who are poor or good kind people who are rich?
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Why is that evil people with bad intentions end up in wealth?
This is probably because the accumulation of wealth is not primarily dependent on ones moral intention, hence it is hard to see a correlation between wealth and moral intent. Skills in the relevant field and hard work probably are much more important.
Too many people get lost in their wealth and desire more and more, often times at the cost of others. In that way wealth can be a snare. 
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