My friend and I had a discussion recently, and I was hoping to hear about other's opinions.
My friend feels that rich people, and even not so rich people, have a responsibility to give away their money to charitible causes. I, however, feel that rich people have earned their money and deserve it, and while it would be a nice thing for them to do, there is no reason they have to.
This, I feel, also holds true for those who inherited their money. If they didn't earn it, someone earned it, and wanted them to have it.
What do you think?
I dont believe they should give away there money. They worked really hard to try and become rich. If they want to give it away or anything they have the choice for them to do what they want with there money. They should give it to a charity or people who really cant work hard because of things like they cant work, or help poor people out to get them started to make money but however its there money they should be able to do what they want with it they worked hard for it so now they can enjoy it.
I don't think they should because most of the time they worked to get their money. Thuogh some people (Paris Hilton...etc.) just inherit the money. But still they shouldn't give it away. Just think... would you give away money if you had a lot?[b:4522c2f21
Hmm, this is an interesting topic. Well, this could be both yes and no.
Yes, because they have lots of money and they wouldn't go bankrupt if they gave a bit of cash to foundations and victims of catastrophes.
No, because I believe most of rich people worked hard to get their money, and no matter how much you have, you wouldn't want to give away something you earned with your two hands (or legs or whatever 
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My friend feels that rich people, and even not so rich people, have a responsibility to give away their money to charitible causes. |
I think your friend is an idiot. And a lieberal.
Take MY money and give it to someone else that didn't work for it?
:middle_finger: | PatTheGreat42 wrote: |
| My friend feels that rich people, and even not so rich people, have a responsibility to give away their money |
And when they give it away to the point they become poor they are then entitled to money from other people.
Wouldn't it be simpler for them just to keep the money they themsevles EARNED? | PatTheGreat42 wrote: |
My friend and I had a discussion recently, and I was hoping to hear about other's opinions.
My friend feels that rich people, and even not so rich people, have a responsibility to give away their money to charitible causes. I, however, feel that rich people have earned their money and deserve it, and while it would be a nice thing for them to do, there is no reason they have to.
This, I feel, also holds true for those who inherited their money. If they didn't earn it, someone earned it, and wanted them to have it.
What do you think? |
i think they should give away their money for helping poor men 
Well it depends how the person got the money. If they won it in the lottery they should give some of it away. If they worked hard and erraned it then why should they give it away. It is like working hard to make a nice dinner and you ask a bunch of people to help and they say no then you really shouldn't have to feed them if they did't help. Do you get what I'm saying. It's all really based around how the money is erraned. Of couse it is ultimately up to the person who has the money.
I dont believe they should give away there money. They worked really hard to try and become rich. If they want to give it away or anything they have the choice for them to do what they want with there money. They should give it to a charity or people who really cant work hard because of things like they cant work, or help poor people out to get them started to make money but however its there money they should be able to do what they want with it they worked hard for it so now they can enjoy it.
Is the 'friend' from the first post is a socialist?
Shall we put the question this way. How much harder can one person work than another? If one person works hard and earns, say, 100 000. Does someone who earns 10 000 000 work 100 times as hard? Or take the example of a managing director of a company who works so badly that he is given 50 million as "compensation" for losing his job. Has he really "earned" that money?
Personally I find it hard to see how someone could need 50 million dollars - you can only eat so much food. You can only ride in one car at a time, you can only live in one house at a time. I also find it hard to understand how someone can "earn" 50 million dollars (as opposed to being given it for being the "right person in the right place at the right time"). If they receive that sort of money then they are overpaid!
Still, once they do get the money it is theirs to do as they like with it. Some will have some sort of morals and donate some to charity, others are greedy and will keep it all for themselves. If you are rich it is easy to give away small sums of money, the hard thing is to gove away sufficient money so that you notice a difference! The person who gives away that much money is admirable in my book.
in my opinion, they souldnt give away their money, as you said most, deserves it because they worked hard for it and that made the difference. but there are a LOT of rich (or middle)people that dont deserves it, because, they didnt work and they have it because, their parents, familiars, etc. earn it time ago. In that case, i keep thinking they not have the "RESPONSABILITY" of giving away the money, but they should think why they have it, and maybe theres a lot of people that wanna work, but dont have the opportunities, so they should give some money to those people.
see ya
wow... just wow.
what does "deserve" mean?
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wow... just wow.
what does "deserve" mean?
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Deserve (v): Not have. Want. Desire. Not earned. | Quote: |
| My friend feels that rich people, and even not so rich people, have a responsibility to give away their money to charitable causes. |
I thing, anyone haven’t rights to push rich people to give money for charitable. Some very rich people give big money in charitable organizations. Unfortunately, many times behind this donations is less tribute on their incoming at the end of year.
But, in some other cases people give big or small amounts of money for help other. I am living in one town where donations coming from everywhere. People just sending money or going in the bank and give money for help. Last ten year I can see this every day. I sow here some rich people what give donations bigger then hundred millions $!!! And I am sure they didn’t give this donation for less tribute. They don’t need rules or push, they just give what they want.
Sonamlook throught the repost ,i had not read anyone holp the oppose opoint .
so i want to holp my owe opoint now.i think the rich man should give some money out for the charity.because from this ,they can earn more more money later,and have a good reputation.
While it would be incredibly nice for the richer people to give their money away, it would have to be to charities. They really shouldn't go giving money to individual people. That tends to create a sort of dependence and doesn't force them to try and make things better on their own. I think maybe they should be encouraged to give money to charities, this is a free nation so they can do with their money what they want to do.
| PatTheGreat42 wrote: |
My friend and I had a discussion recently, and I was hoping to hear about other's opinions.
My friend feels that rich people, and even not so rich people, have a responsibility to give away their money to charitible causes. I, however, feel that rich people have earned their money and deserve it, and while it would be a nice thing for them to do, there is no reason they have to.
This, I feel, also holds true for those who inherited their money. If they didn't earn it, someone earned it, and wanted them to have it.
What do you think? |
my view is, if everyone is a plain paper when s/he was born to the earth. So, if one earns money him/herself and only by him/herself, those money is belonged to him/her. Then they should not be asked/required to give away their mney. It's his/her choice.
However, if one does not have the money in such away, like you said, just inherited from their parents, then those money should be donated back to the society. i hate people gain something without giving out. And it's not fair.well, it really depends on him/her. If she does not want to give away his/her money, then don't! If he/she feels charitable, then why not. It's his/her money anyway. He/she can use it any way he/she wants.
well honestly is up to them if they want to give their money..
[quote="S3nd K3ys"] | gonzo wrote: |
wow... just wow.
what does "deserve" mean?
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Deserve (v): Not have. Want. Desire. Not earned./quote]
???????
Deserve: be worthy or deserving; "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3Adeserve I kind of have the feeling that it depends on how this person got rich... Did he work hard all his life and did he save every penny of it... then it is his and he deserved it... Now if he won some lottery or something then I would recomend him giving some of it to a charity. Now lets turn the situation around a little more: what if he stole it and now he/she is rich?!? Of course this person should give it all away for a good cause... If he doesn't then he shall be doomed for life!!!
some really good heart people reaaly donate the money but most not since there earn with there hard and smart work why should there do it
If they've earned the money rightfully then no since they spent a long time getting it. But if they earned it by cons or any other un-civil way then they should (but I highly doubt they would).
Capitalism as a social system solves one problem very well: How to create wealth.
It does not solve a long list of other problems. One of the ones unsolved is: How to distribute wealth.
Socialism is a system, like communism, that attempted to solve that second problem. The problem was, that they broke the first solution, AND, they only worked so-so on the second problem.
Having a large number of charitable choices is great step towards solving the second problem.
Suppose you had a great deal of money. Yes, YOU. Not $2 million, like you won the lottery. More like $200 million. You can't spend that yourself.
Everybody wants to make the world a better place. Everybody has some idea how to do that, including you.
So there you are with $200 million dollars. You are going to decide to spend it the way you want to make the world a better place according your YOUR vision.
Maybe you buy your way into politics. Maybe you provide AIDS drugs to Africa. Maybe you provide grants to math and science teachers. Maybe you give it Planned Parenthood or the Red Cross.
The point is, if you don't give away according to YOUR wishes, it sits around doing almost nothing. Eventually, the goverment will take it and it will go to social security, building roads, and waging war.
So in the end, rich people DO ending up giving away their money.
Damn good thing, too.
I think rich people can do whatever they WANT with their money. They probably worked hard for it, and just happen to have better luck than some poor guy. 
But if the money IS inherited, (Paris Hilton) then they should give away at least a BIT of their money to the poor, because at a point like this, you haven't earned the money, you just happen to have a rich family. so yeah...... 
You do not think these rich people money very many, I thought they
rich are they are very industrious, gains very diligently, but also
has some people makes not the improper money.
I know if I were rich, I would buy lots of stuff, mostly material and superficial, maybe go to europe, then what I had left after bills I would:
50% Invest in Cash Deposits
10% Cash
40% Charity/Others
If I didn't give a fair amount I would probably save, or change my lifestyle to give at least once a month. But that is if I were rich. But I'm not. So I will just complain about how rich people are hoggin all the money. Stupid rich people.
Rich people should give their money to me.
...That way, maybe I could afford a domain. Not being one of the folks in question its easy,,, YES (as in sharing their wealth).
Fortunately most rich people I know have a natural sence of sharing and do it.
The important part is for the rest of us to remember that we all should give to needy causes. In ways of monetary contributions (if we can) or help in whatever form we are able to.
It a very needy world out there and we have an obligation to help others.
of course they wont give it away...they become rich becoz they are not giving their money to anyone
i believe there should be a tax for example if they have over 100,000 in teh bank 6% should be taxed and given to charity?
Should rich people be forced to give their money away? Certainly not. No one should ever be forced to part with the thing they have earned all by themselves.
Is it a good thing when rich people give some of their money away to charitable causes? Definitely. No question there but I think it should always be a voluntary thing rather than a mandatory one.
When they earned it theirselves, they don't have to give their money away, but when they got it from family, I think they should
Like most people, I think that they shouldn't have to give money away since the rich folk usually earns it all from hard work and time. They shouldn't have to give it away unless it was like asking for everyone to give away money and not just the rich people.
First of all, some of the comments in this thread are not only inappropriate, but are just plain ignorant. Just because you're rich doesn't mean your greedy; it doesn't mean that you've horded money your whole life in some selfish manner to live an extravagant lifestyle. I personally know a family that is very wealthy, but they live a very humble lifestyle in a small home next to a small lake. A lot of people work very hard for the wealth they have, and being jealous of their success in life is not a valid reason to tarnish their character.
Now, back to the topic. Rich people ethically should donate a lot of their money, but they are in no way required to. But this maxim applies to everyone, despite their financial status.
Those of them that earned it by working hard and getting far in life should not have to, but the lazy asses that just inherit it from their parents or actors or sports players should have to. its not right that entertainers get paid more than people like doctors.
So you think actors and athletes don't work hard?
And the belief that those who inheret money should give it away is just as asinine as the belief that rich people are greedy.
