that's the topic of this article on the nation. it's a very interesting article, and reminds me of this quotation from 'Abdu'l-Baha, the Son of the Founder of the Baha'i Faith:
"Certainly, some being enormously rich and others lamentably poor, an organization is necessary to control and improve this state of affairs. It is important to limit riches, as it is also of importance to limit poverty. Either extreme is not good. To be seated in the mean is most desirable. If it be right for a capitalist to possess a large fortune, it is equally just that his workman should have a sufficient means of existence.
A financier with colossal wealth should not exist whilst near him is a poor man in dire necessity. When we see poverty allowed to reach a condition of starvation it is a sure sign that somewhere we shall find tyranny."
this by no means however implies that everyone should be having exactly the same amount of money regardless of what they do. there must be a correlation between job/education and income, however not to the extreme difference of degree that exists today.
"Certainly, some being enormously rich and others lamentably poor, an organization is necessary to control and improve this state of affairs. It is important to limit riches, as it is also of importance to limit poverty. Either extreme is not good. To be seated in the mean is most desirable. If it be right for a capitalist to possess a large fortune, it is equally just that his workman should have a sufficient means of existence.
A financier with colossal wealth should not exist whilst near him is a poor man in dire necessity. When we see poverty allowed to reach a condition of starvation it is a sure sign that somewhere we shall find tyranny."
this by no means however implies that everyone should be having exactly the same amount of money regardless of what they do. there must be a correlation between job/education and income, however not to the extreme difference of degree that exists today.
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