The Destructive Nature of Extreme Wealth: A Response to the Critics

I've been asked by several of you to explain myself regarding the comment I made in the post above. Fair enough. This isn’t a simple topic, and I don’t expect everyone to agree—many probably won’t want to. Still, I believe it’s worth putting into an article, so I can lay everything out fully. Whether you choose to believe me or not, that’s up to you. But here’s my explanation, as I see it.

*Note: It took me a day and morning to think deeply and to put this explanation into words.

To the atheists among you, let’s start from common ground. There's a scientific principle called cause and effect—also known as causality. The basic idea is that every action creates a reaction. This is foundational in science, but what might surprise you is that it's also deeply biblical.

Now, to the questions I've received: "What's wrong with having wealth?"

The truth is, wealth in itself isn’t bad. There are people who do good things with their wealth. Even the Bible includes faithful people who were wealthy. So yes, we can agree: having money is not inherently evil.

Another question I was asked: "What’s wrong with owning stock, especially in a company you built?"

That's fair. If you hold onto your stock, it grows and sustains your company and legacy. But let’s consider the bigger picture.

Extreme wealth—over $200 billion qualifies—raises a different question: how much is enough? The world may not operate on one currency, but it does function through one interconnected economy. When one person holds hundreds of billions, it means others have less. This isn't just philosophy; it's math. It’s cause and effect. In a global system of trade and resources, the ultra-concentration of wealth creates imbalance.

Most businesses begin with good intentions—feeding your family, supporting your community. You hire workers, you contribute to the economy. That’s a positive effect. But when your company explodes in size and profit, those early goals drift further away. Now you’re beholden to shareholders, often wealthy themselves, whose main goal is greater return—not helping your workers or your community.

This shift has consequences: workers are paid as little as legally possible, local economies crumble as small businesses are pushed out, and the pursuit of more profit becomes a game of appeasing investors. The cause: profit motive. The effect: economic inequality, community erosion, even despair.

Then there's the human impact. What happens to someone who loses their business or job because your empire outcompeted their small store? Maybe they put off having a family. Maybe they lose their home. Maybe they break—turn to drugs, their kids get caught up in addiction, or they even end their own lives. This is the real ripple effect of unchecked, ultra-wealthy capitalism.

And if your argument is, “Hey, these billionaires donate to charity. Aren’t they doing good things with their money?”—I’d ask you: are they really doing as much as you think? Or is it all perception management? With that kind of money, you make headlines constantly. You need a PR team. And part of their job is to promote just enough charity to clean the image, even if it’s a fraction of the wealth they hold. The deeper truth is this: when legacy becomes more important than humanity, you've lost something vital. That’s part of the destruction of extreme wealth—it kills empathy and inflates ego.

As the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus once warned, ambition for its own sake is hollow. These ambitions may shine brightly, but they don’t fulfill you. That’s why so many of the ultra-wealthy become strange, disconnected, or self-destructive. Their world turns into a video game, and they begin to live like modern-day Aleister Crowleys—doing whatever they want, untethered from moral restraint. It’s how you end up with people like Jeffrey Epstein, P. Diddy, and others accused or convicted of abuse, trafficking, and exploitation. These aren’t just random outliers—they are powerful, wealthy men, and they sit among the global elite.

Look at the Forbes list or global power rankings—who dominates them? Wealthy men. Their common link? Extreme power, extreme wealth, and often, extreme moral blindness.

Imagine some of the poorest countries in the world, where people struggle just to find a meal each day. Do you think they benefit from the ultra-wealthy? Or do you think their desperation becomes a tool—used and abused to provide cheaper labor for multinational corporations? Many of the products we consume daily are manufactured by people working in exploitative conditions—low wages, long hours, and unsafe environments—especially in parts of Asia, Africa, and Central America. This isn’t fiction; it’s documented reality. The ultra-rich profit off this imbalance, further proving the point: extreme wealth breeds exploitation.

And it doesn't stop with labor. The poverty of these nations also weakens their position at the negotiating table. When ultra-wealthy individuals or powerful countries want access to natural resources—minerals, oil, rare earth elements—they often extract them at dirt-cheap prices. Why? Because the people on the other side of the table are desperate. Desperation removes leverage, and the rich use that imbalance to get what they want for a fraction of its value. Once again, wealth multiplies through exploitation.

Extreme wealth is not just destructive to others. It’s destructive to the person who holds the wealth. Many atheists may not believe in a soul, but they often believe in psychology. And psychology tells us: too much power and unchecked wealth breeds narcissism, dehumanization, and isolation. It erodes empathy.

And if you do believe in God, then you know what the Bible says: “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6:10). Not money itself—but the love of it. Jesus warned clearly, “You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24) and that it's “easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19:24).

Let’s not forget James 5:1-6, where the rich are condemned for hoarding wealth, exploiting laborers, and living in luxury while others suffer. It reads like a modern indictment of Amazon or any mega-corporation whose CEOs make millions while their workers struggle to pay rent.

Now compare that to Aleister Crowley (a known Satanist who wrote The Book of the Law, often referred to as the 'devil's bible'), who famously preached, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” Crowley believed in self-worship, indulgence, and the rejection of moral boundaries. Many of today's most powerful figures don’t quote Crowley—but they live like him. Their actions reflect that same destructive mantra: serve yourself, acquire more, and let the weak fall behind. Notice how the two philosophies are polar opposites.

Science teaches cause and effect. The Bible teaches sowing and reaping. They align.

You reap what you sow (Galatians 6:7). If you sow greed, you reap ruin. If you sow service, you reap legacy.

Let’s look at the top 10 richest people in the world today: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, Bernard Arnault, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Ballmer, and Amancio Ortega. None are known to profess the Christian faith. Their legacies are defined not by wisdom or righteousness, but by expansion, innovation, and accumulation.

The Bible says that wisdom is better than gold (Proverbs 16:16), and yet these men chase knowledge, data, and power. What they often lack is wisdom. And in chasing endless wealth, they become slaves to it. The irony? The very book they ignore predicted this behavior thousands of years ago.

I know this argument won't land with everyone. If you subscribe to Crowley-like thinking, or if Darwinian survival of the fittest is your ethic, then nothing I say will change your mind. But if you love even one person in your life—your child, your parent, your friend—then ask yourself: would you want them to be chewed up by the system just so someone else could be on a Forbes list?

Capitalism is the best system we have, though there are some flaws in it. But extreme wealth isn't just a number. It has consequences. It breaks systems. It shapes governments. It decides wars. It molds media. And often, it corrupts the soul.

So no, I don’t believe we should forcefully take wealth. But I do believe we should speak the truth: that kind of wealth is disgusting not because it exists, but because of the damage it leaves behind.

You asked why I made that statement. And now you have my answer.

God bless you for reading this far. And if you’re still on the fence, don’t take my word for it. Read the Bible. Compare it to what you see in the world. And if you genuinely seek truth, you’ll find that it was never far off—just buried beneath all that money.

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