“Your moral worth is directly proportional to your net worth”
Agree
- Wealth reflects discipline and contribution
- Markets reward value creation objectively
- Rich people literally provide more value
- Money measures societal usefulness
Disagree
- Teachers and nurses prove this wrong
- Inheritance and luck determine most wealth
- Equating money with morality is dystopian
- Sociopaths often accumulate the most wealth
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