For this assignment, I am asked to write about if it is moral to be wealthy, and related topics. There is nothing immoral about being wealthy, nor is it unjust that some have more money than others. However, there are certainly moral limits to the ways that wealth can be gained.
I am quite sure that there is nothing immoral about being wealthy. There are several reasons why. Being wealthy yourself does not have any negative effect on how wealthy others can become; rather, it can even make easier for others to gain wealth. Whenever any transaction occurs, both parties should be gaining wealth. Wealth is gained by making transactions; hence, when you make wise transactions with others, those that make transactions with you gain as well. Taking that into account, we can show that there is nothing immoral about gaining wealth, as whenever you make a transaction, the other party is gaining as well. The only problem with this is that when you gain by immoral ways (eg. stealing, cheating, etc), your ill-gotten wealth is not moral.
It is perfectly just to have more wealth than others. Simply put, the free market economy makes you and the work you put in the deciding factor in whether you are wealthy or not. There are men in this world who have gone from complete poverty to fairly wealthy through hard work. You cannot do that in a communist environment. How is it just to make some impoverished people a little better off, but drag everybody else down with them?
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In conclusion, there is nothing unjust about being wealthy unless it is wealth that is obtained unjustly, for example, via stealing or cheating. A communist environment is also very unjust, as it drags everybody that would succeed in a capitalist environment down with the very few people that it pulls up from complete poverty.