Dear Pam and Pierre Omidyar, here is the shortest chapter of “Eat the Rich & Share the Wealth”
February 2nd, 2010
Are people
who travel in town cars and
on corporate jets different—on a psychological level—
from you and me? Does the availability of luxury goods “prime” individuals
to be less concerned about or considerate toward others?
The answer from new research
seems to be yes.
We live
in a culture in which
personal wealth confers great status,
and one of the most popular themes in self-development
tells us that we all need to develop a greater inner sense of abundance.
The Sufis have traditionally regarded wealth with suspicion, not because there
is anything intrinsically wrong with it but because the self can easily get lost
in the personal power and freedom that wealth seems to purchase.
For this reason, many Sufis have followed the principle
of giving away whatever they
don’t need.
…Rumi
regards personal wealth
as a test from the Beloved, but one
that a person can, with
difficulty, pass.
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