The Morality of Wealth

Our society encourages us to be successful and tells us that if we mystify wealth and excessive material things, well be dexterous. yet is this re exclusivelyy the case? Do money and wealth deal contentment? More and more(prenominal) research is being make in the new discipline of positive psychology to invoke that no, extreme wealth is non the source of happiness; the moneyed are not grandly happier than those of lower financial status. In fact, some of the happiest people in the world simply have enough to get by and survive, and yet what makes them so happy is the love they are adjoin by and their appreciation for what they do have. So this leads me to question wherefore wealth is so important in our society, and is it immoral to be wealthy when such strict poverty exists just nigh the corner, crossways town, across the country, and across the world? In this paper, I intend to prove that ones happiness is not increased by excessive wealth and in that respectfo re it is an individuals moral obligation to fate it with others who are less fortunate, agree to both ethical self-assertion and utilitarianism.\nIll begin with a square(a) story that Tom Shadyac tells in his documentary, I Am. Long ago, there was a tribe where everyone contributed and all were taken care of. disregarding of if you were sick, elderly or weak, your unavoidably were met. No one took more than they needed and everyone had a graceful share. Then, one day, the best huntsman in the tribe verbalize to himself, I bring defend more meat than anyone else, why shouldnt I be allowed to pass on the bounty of my hunt? and he began storing his meat in a high mountain cave. different hunters saw what he was doing and began doing the same. Suddenly, the junior children in the tribe halt being encouraged to be generous and more and more were encouraged to compete, be the best, and foregather as much as possible to be wealthy. For the send-off time, the weak, sick and elderly began to force poor and starve. As the sufficient became richer, they crushe...