These are 3 quotes from [[Reference Notes/New Self, New World]]. It is worth asking different people which ones they would subscribe to: > Those who acquire a lot [of wealth] have ipso facto demonstrated their worth, and should therefore be granted special privileges and opportunities to acquire more. > Egregious wealth, let us be clear, is a measure of one thing and one thing only: your ability to ride roughshod over the world, oblivious of the inevitable damage your actions leave in their wake. In other words, wealth measures your ability to live irresponsibly. > Personal wealth can be used to help the world; but experience cautions that even the determination to help out, in the hands of the wealthy, can initiate actions that are callously insensitive to their own consequences. To use the resources of wealth otherwise requires a humility and attentiveness to the world that continuously provoke transformation in us. Either way, though, wealth cannot be seen as a measure of your ability to do good. The true measure of your ability to do good is found only in the openness of your heart and in your soul’s ability to transform—qualities to which personal wealth often makes us feel we should be immune.