RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
It might be important to clarify the divines' understanding of "wealth." It doesn't mean that we are all to try to become rich, just that we are to earn a living, as others have said. The word "wealth" today is associated with large amounts of money.
Excellent point. Even if we were to bow the knee to the god of socialism, inequalities would soon appear. While the state can take away outward forms of wealth in terms of homes, land, money, capital, and distribute it to those who don't work, it can't redistribute values, work-ethics, mentalities toward the future, etc. In other words, even granting redistribution, inequities in society would soon reappear (which they are not supposed to do, given the statist dogma).