Connection Between Work And Wealth

The Relation of Work, Wealth, and Interdependence Everyone knows that the harder one works the wealthier they will be. The logic makes sense, people who are lazy and do little work won’t do their job, and therefore won’t become wealthy. When a person works hard it makes sense that they will earn a lot of money. This means that work and wealth are directly related, as one increases so does the other. Even though it is commonly believed that wealth is acquired by hard work there are some people, with less opportunities, that work hard during their entire life and don’t amount even closely to what other rich people make. Police officers, firefighters, and soldiers of war all work hard, but they will never mass the same amount a movie actor …show more content…
What were the luxuries have become the necessaries of life. The laborer has now more comforts than the farmer had a few generations ago.” (Carnegie 486-87) and if we compare the value of wealth to what is was then, to what it is now, we see that Carnegie was right. Today it is common, even for a poor family, to live in an insulated home. A hundred years ago this was not common for a poor family. Three hundred years ago it was uncommon for even a rich person’s house to be well heated. This means that modern wealth today is more valuable than wealth a long time ago because of all the necessities we have better access to. This means that the connection between hard work and wealth has shifted because today it costs less money, and therefore less work, to acquire the necessities to live. In conclusion, the connection between work and wealth is, that with enough hard work you may become very wealthy, but also with the right connections you may also become wealthy. The connection between work and wealth is constantly shifting as well, people are acquiring more wealth with less work now, because today, wealth can purchase a lot more necessities than it did a long time