It is a lie told not to gain gold or save your own reputation, but simply to destroy another. The socialistic mentality is so commonly accepted that it is considered part of democracy, and not socialism at all. There was a time when men on the farm sought wealth by working harder or longer hours, or devising some method of doing more in the same period of time. No one owed him anything and he did not expect it. Today there is a general lack of contentment.
Fathers everywhere come home from work with sour tales of how they are misused on the job.
Lack of contentment makes a man poor on any financial scale. Godliness with contentment is great gain. There can be no godliness where there is no contentment. A man, who learns to be content in whatever state he is in, is indeed a rich man, and his children will be rich. A man with great means but no contentment is a man of poverty.