THE MAN OF WEALTH

Thought experiment:

There are people with large bodies of wealth. Why do these people not use their wealth to make the world a better place?

Are they socially unconscious or socially irresponsible?

I fancy they would not accept the charge of social ignorance!

What can we say, are these people malevolent? How can this not be the case seeing they have the power to prevent evil? What prevents them from using their power for good?

{I suspect they have an ideology, a false morality, by which they see themselves as doing good. But the question is whether or not this ideology is consistent with social reality?}

If I have the power of wealth, and I am a social being, then what kind of social responsibility do I have, seeing wealth makes me an agent of power?

If our man of wealth rejects the fact that he is socially ignorant, then he must admit to being socially immoral.

The same argument that applies to an all-power-deity is the same argument that applies to our man of wealth:

If God is all-powerful, then why does he not prevent evil; because he is not all-good. If God is all-good, then why does he not prevent evil; because he is not all-powerful.

Indeed, it is even worse with the man of wealth, precisely because wealth, in the context of a capitalist society, is an undeniable signifier of power (which means we cannot argue that the man of wealth lacks power)!

The man of wealth can't have it both ways, by hoarding wealth he is either socially evil or socially ignorant... But surely his psychology transcends this dichotomy; he rejects both these conclusions on the basis of some faulty, moral ideology, which to his eyes, beams as the haven of Truth, the-axiom-of-personal-peace. 

At the end of the day the man of wealth sees himself at the head of society; he sees himself as the most important agent in society. So complete is his ideology of power (so distant from reality) that the man of power is convinced that he is not only superior, but also necessary to the existence of society. Such a man sees himself in relation to society, as a God would stand in relation to the universe!   

We must seek to reform society by knocking down this ideology, by exposing its false morality. [Let the great refuters come forth!] A true morality not only shows man to be free, but it shows him to be free (only) in relation to society itself. Because a freedom outside society would not be a freedom worth having, precisely because it would not be a freedom of quality! The abundance that makes an individual (which is required for the existence of an individual) is not possible outside the context of society!  

We must seek to reform the penal institutions of society, because this is how the man of wealth deals with those who reject his ideology of power. 

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