Poverty is certainly a moral issue; but it has nothing to do with music and movies.
The moral issue of poverty and economic injustice is one the Bible itself, and Christianity historically, has had a lot to say about.
Namely, the immorality of the hoarding of wealth by the few resulting the deprivation of means for the many. This is very much a moral issue, and thus a moral solution is required; redistributive methods is an example of a moral solution to the immorality of wealth hoarding; especially through structured and progressive taxation focusing on the rich having the chief tax burden; and providing social welfare for the those who are especially vulnerable.
The Biblical model instituted by God for ancient Israel involved wealth redistribution through methods such as tithing. While tithing has never been a commandment within the Church, the Church has always placed a great deal of stress on redistribution of wealth as a moral obligation upon Christian people, and through the condemnation of practices such as usury.
It is strange that, in the modern west, so many Christians have sided with the morally corrupt and economically unjust system of wealth-hoarding in the form of unregulated capitalism--and opposition to regulation, opposition to economic justice, and opposition to the moral refining of society by calling anything that does not look like neo-liberalism "Marxism".
-CryptoLutheran
1. It is also immoral to not work, to support others (family). You do not take from the rich for that. It is also immoral to not care for those with disabilities unable to work, and those that are sick. The problem with marxism, communism., is allowing people to become "SICK", through drug abuse, and the mentally ill, to not be helped.
Wealth is not a problem in the scripture...
Gen 13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
De 8:17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
De 8:18 But thou shalt remember
the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers,
2. Simple comparisons, rather than need. Good wages, become unfair and bad wages....
Hire early in the morning, an agreed wage..
Good to the laborers
1 ¶ For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 And he went out about the third hour,
5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
6 And about the eleventh hour
In the evening time for their pay..
8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
9 And when they came that were
hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
10 But when
the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
11 And when they had received it,
they murmured against the goodman of the house,
12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and
thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. {have wrought … : or, have continued one hour only }
13 But he answered one of them, and said,
Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
14 Take that thine is, and go thy way:
I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
