What should you do with your millions?

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

What "certain kind of Christian"? I've never encountered any Christian that said you must sell everything you own and give the money to the poor. There are some Christians that believe it's a Christian testimony or witness to live simple lives (Quakers, Amish, etc.), but there's none that say your faith is only real if you are reduced to being a vagabond. Likewise, there are some Christians that favor more equity in taxation, housing, and employment, so that the poor are not oppressed by the rich (something that has deeply biblical roots, even though institutional religion has, at times, resisted this obvious interpretation).

I mean exactly what I've said. There are certain people out there online that I've had conversations with that would suggest that all wealth must be gotten rid of. It's an extreme position and one I reject.

No. I think that if you're using your wealth for others, then you don't have wealth anymore.

??? You can set aside wealth for personal use and wealth for use on others. You don't have to surrender all wealth if you use it for others. Where did you get this idea from?

 

[Astrid]

If rich own a monopoly on the means to acquire wealth, it's not nonsense.

And if wishes was fishes we'd all eat pie.

Your statement is such a huge IF,
Like there's only one way to get rich and that is to
take from others.
It takes a very improbable situation for your scenario to ever happen,

 

[Moral Orel]

??? You can set aside wealth for personal use and wealth for use on others. You don't have to surrender all wealth if you use it for others. Where did you get this idea from?

Sorry, my mistake; forgot a word. It was supposed to say this:

"I think that if you're using your wealth for others, then you don't have that wealth anymore."

Stuff I have is my wealth. If I serve others, I have less wealth. It's weird to say that wealth serves other folk, when serving other folk diminishes my wealth. I think that's where the confusion is coming from. If I was always spending my income to serve others, I wouldn't have any wealth.