The further bad news is that envy and social harassment still dog the millionaire. Look at our plays and novels, our movies and television programs. Millionaires are usually if not always portrayed as venal, grasping, shallow men and women. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.
Some humans devour the resources of the earth while innumerable others languish in want and despair.
The church must stand within that struggle, making its voice heard in behalf of the powerless and the forgotten. It must point out the superfluous wealth is an abhorrence to God in a world where, for the majority, economic failure, means permanent disaster. To be sure, in all these cases there were factors besides that of an antiwealth mentality. Today the progressive income tax is especially nefarious in our inflationary age, cutting ever more deeply into the ability of everybody, especially salaried people, to reach the nirvana of millionaire status. D.C. And of course, With mounting inflation, this concentration of the tax burden at the upper end of the income spectrum is on the increase.