Why Wealth is Good

This presentation gives a brief overview and illustrations of the desirability of wealth. The higher one's material standard of living the better - from the standpoint of virtually any set of values one might choose to embrace, unless one values death over life. This presentation will also explain why life is in fact preferable to death and why valuing death entails a contradiction.

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Education

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• wealth
• good
• life
• virtue
• morality
• progress
• prosperity
• freedom
• capitalism
• money
• materialism
• material
• humanities
• social
• science
• economics

[MirageScience]

its good because i can talk to more people because their can be more people and better technology. lol just 1 thing i love about growing wealth

[GStolyarovII]

@MirageScience Indeed.

[kevithsilent]

with your opinion that wealth brings different cultures together, would you prefer one world currency?

[GStolyarovII]

I would prefer an international gold standard, similar to what had existed prior to the mid-20th century. While this would still allow for multiple national currencies, all of those currencies would be pegged to gold and redeemable for gold. There could also be private competing currencies denominated in terms of gold. But gold, on a free market, has shown to emerge as the underlying standard for all currencies.

[MrShroomtits]

@MirageScience suck my dick dylan

[sevenmary311]

Rich is better then being poor and the middle class is confused on what they want

[Coquipirate]

@rab200 As ill distributed as wealth might appear to be, in the capitalist system, the poor are getting richer with the rich. The comforts made by and for the rich benefit others (indoor plumbing, satelites ect.) Plunder doesn't create wealth, it just moves it. Mutually beneficial trades build produce more wealth in the long run. It gives people incentive to mine, craft, and such. Religious tolerence is present where wealth is (North America, the Pacific Rim, Western Europe, and Austrailia)

[Coquipirate]

@kassandrasduplex antibiotics, indoor plumbing, and such are commonplace because people could afford these things, funding the research. As ill distributed as wealth might appear to be, in the capitalist system, the poor are getting richer with the rich. Even a relativly poor American lives better than the adverage Cuban, Vietmeneese, North Korean, or Chineese citizen.

[Coquipirate]

The free market owns. Commies need to take a lesson from housing projects. Giving stuff away, even when they are compelled to work, makes them neither happy nor productive. What then, is the point? That being said, jobs getting automated and "over"production in a starving world become bad things in the free market system. Students are forced to choose between what they want to study and what is practical. There must be something done but I don't know what.

[Pilgrim812]

Wealth is neither good nor bad. It is simply wealth. The good that can come from wealth comes from how it is used. Our problem today comes a rapacious form of capitalism in which the ends always justifiy the means. Transpose the word sociopath for capitalist and hypocrite for philanthropist. I give todays capitalism an "A" for avarice and and an "F" for ethics- which explains the state of a collapsing world economy today. One can only mock God so long.

[rab200]

youre equating wealth with progress. the problem with wealth isnt wealth itself, its the distribution of it and the pursuance of it. exchanging things value for value results in equal value, or equal wealth. taking things by force results in more wealth. if wealth is good you presumably would want more of it, and would advocate force.

religious tolerance has spread to the wrest of the world? what???

[nishuee]

Very informative. Thank you so much for sharing