Sustained wealth does required good economics and education but these in turn must be built atop a solid moral foundation or they will not be sustained. A prior and far wiser generation understood this.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Benjamin Franklin
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government, can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men; so that we do not depend upon their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them. - James Madison
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. - George Washington
I am asking myself the question how does this thing of
sustained wealth permeates to more rather than less human beings if
The 85 Richest People In The World Have As Much Wealth As The 3.5 Billion Poorest. It is indeed a pressing question for I do observe the tremendous sustainability of wealth of these persons and I cannot equate this to virtuousness or freedom or indispensable morality or any such wondrous balancing equilibrium as such that I observe in nature. Maybe humans are not as natural as we might like to think?