Being Rich Can Make You a Better Person. Here’s How.

You can hardly help anyone if you’re poor. That’s the reality. Saving lives takes money, and rich people have it. If you want to have a greater global impact, and if you want to positively impact the lives of more people, then you have a duty to become rich. That’s the thesis I’m presenting for your consideration today.

The syllogism is simple:

1) Even the most effective charities rely on donations to fulfill their humanitarian missions.

2) Rich people have more money that they could potentially donate to these charities.

3) Therefore, rich people can save more lives than poor people.

However often people may rail against rich folks (and, clearly, some rich folks are assholes), it’s people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett who can afford to give billions of dollars away to cure malaria and other such horrific diseases.

These are diseases that have been killing hundreds of millions of people throughout humanity’s evolutionary history, and it’s rich people that are leading the charge against them.

“They” say that money is the root of all evil, but “they” are wrong. It’s lack of money that is the root of all evil.