Elon Musk has offered to buy twitter for the ridiculous sum of forty-three billion dollars. For that amount of money, he could build or buy just over one hundred thousand average-cost homes in the United States, and give them to one out of every five people experiencing homelessness. He could also opt to build smaller, cheaper homes and eliminate homelessness altogether.
Imagine if you held that kind of power in your hand: The ability to, on a whim, completely end homelessness in your county.
You and I don't wield that kind of power, but we do have something to offer. You might not be able to choose ending homelessness instead of buying Twitter, but you might be able to choose ending someone's hunger for the day instead of buying fast food. I can't single-handedly pay off all the water bills for the entire city of Los Angeles, but I can certainly help a struggling family make sure they have enough to keep the lights on for a month.
I'm not a religious person, but the vast majority of my country purports to be a Christian. In your book, it explains that it's incredibly difficult for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In the life to come, it says, their gold will testify against them, and burn their flesh like fire.
Now, I don't know if any of that is true, but I do know this.. If it is true, until that day, we can and should look after one another as much as we can. We can also refuse to venerate greedy, selfish celebrities simply because we see some wicked reflection of ourselves in them.
