WHAT ELSE SHOULD THE RICH DISPLAY?

The new prime minister of Armenia thinks it is anti-Christian when the rich display their wealth and power in a country with a problem of poverty. He says there would be no social tension if the rich changed their way of life. In other words, the poor see that in a small country where they hardly make both ends meet, where they hardly earn their daily bread, a considerable group of people owns the entire wealth of the country, rides in expensive cars followed by long motorcades, lives in expensive villas, has fun in restaurants and other places of entertainment, enjoys life, and those who encounter this group, should thank God that they did not take their life for getting under their feet. When people see the existence and possibilities of those people, anger, insult, feeling of injustice occurs in these people, and social tension occurs. Perhaps this is the leitmotif of Tigran Sargsyan’s speech, according to which in a country with a lot of poor people the rich should possess but not to display their power and wealth. However, the question occurs what else those people should display if all they have is power and wealth. Or where they should keep the power and wealth they have accumulated. It is easier to put away the poor than the wealth of the rich. After all, you cannot hide the entire country from the poor. Today the entire country belongs to a group of rich people. Therefore, it should be expected that the rich will respond to the prime minister offering the government to build a ghetto for the poor somewhere in the country where they would provide the people who have no wealth and power and feel uneasy about it with apartments free of charge. After all, there are people who do not feel uneasy and do not cause social tension. These people would live openly, freely, whereas the people who are vexed at the sight of wealth would move to the ghetto. Perhaps this option may amuse some people and may insult the poor. However, strange though the following idea may seem, what insults the poor people is Tigran Sargsyan’s statement that it is anti-Christian to display wealth and power in a country with a problem of poverty. What is this? It appears that the poor people envy the rich, and envy causes social tension. Besides, the poor people in our country judge by what they see, in other words, they are unable to think or to understand, and if they saw no wealth, they would not think of demanding a better and dignified life. Is it not insulting for the poor people when the prime minister in fact hints to the rich guys let’s not display that we are rich for people not to doubt anything and live quietly until we find a way? Does he not appear to mean this? After all, poverty is not a vice, and wealth is not a crime. Therefore, it is not anti-Christian to display wealth, it is anti-Christian to make, accumulate and keep wealth illegally. It is anti-Christian that the rich violate almost all the state and human laws, they help one and display it to thousand and one. This unlawfulness makes the poor people angry. They are angry that wealth determines the degree of responsibility before the law, and the wealthier, the less responsible. Therefore, it is necessary to solve the problem of equality before the law for it to affect the rich and their families and bodyguards equally. Otherwise, wealth is not a problem, let them display it as much as they want but without having innocent people suffer, in other words, without accumulating that wealth at the expense of those people and self-asserting on those people. HAKOB BADALYAN

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