It's Complicated

"Thus when people object, as they do, to me and others pointing out that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer-by commenting that wealth is not finite, that statist and globalist solutions and handouts will merely strip the poor of their human dignity and vocation to work, and that all this will encourage the poor toward a sinful envy of the rich, a slothful escapism, and a counterproductive reliance on Caesar rather than God-I want to take such commentators to refugee camps, to villages where children die every day, to towns where most adults have already died of AIDS, and show them people who haven't got the energy to be envious, who aren't slothful because they are using all the energy they've go to wait in line for water and to care for each other, who know perfectly well that they don't need handouts so much as justice." N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope, p. 218