But that doesn't hold much water. Presumably among the disciples there were wealthy as well as poor. Matthew and Zaccheus were tax collectors. Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea were wealthy leaders of the Jewish community. Mary and Martha of Bethany, together with their brother Lazarus, were persons of means who owned there own home and helped support Jesus and his disciples.
Writers are among the best observers of the human condition and the dangers of human existence.
Journalist and military historian Emile Henry Gauvreau once described himself part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they dislike. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore. We know that consumption isn't the answer, and we ask ourselves what is. What they discovered is that it does and that what it is and what it may cost depends on your economic status.