And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.