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In reply to the discussion: Is it immoral to make a certain amount or have a certain amount of wealth? [View all]Trillo
(9,154 posts)wordnet says "deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong"
Historically, as I understand it, there have always been a few very wealthy individuals, and a bunch of slaves. So, is that right, or wrong?
One can look at the statistics of the few versus the many, to try to determine a mean, what is common. If what most of the people do is right, and what the few do as a minority is different, then perhaps it can be construed as wrong. But this concept runs up against the historical one of there always having been a few exploiting the many.
Perhaps, just perhaps, that is what it means to be human. To either be very wealthy and a dictator of sorts, even a rather cruel one; or to be poor, and being at the dictators' beck and call at all times.
Should it be moral to amass great wealth, than that prior paragraph seems correct.