well, getting rich is not a sin, is it???
Buddy, getting rich is not a sin,
but getting super rich in a country with vast abject poverty is a sin, even a
crime.
Simple:
a) a country's GDP is a fixed number in a given year. If the rich is a
little richer, the poor will be
much poorer.
b) rich people depend on (relatively) poor people to get so called
surplus values, which is the final profit as a result of labor sold to the rich by the poor. The higher the surplus value, the lower the poor get paid for the labor they sold. Thus getting too rich in a very poor environment is a bad thing. It helps to induce corruption, injustice, murder, more poverty, more malnutrition, negligences... all sorts of social problems.
b) a conscientious people would be always aware to be thankful to the environment that makes they rich. Only the greediest, the meanest, the least grateful, like or worse than Venice Merchant, would not give back to the society, but keep the profit to themselves.
Quite often,
big income disparity reflects big sociel injustice. China faces the same problem.
If the majority of Indians think that to be super rich among abject poverty is glorious, not shameful, then that explains perhaps why
India is a murder capital of the world and why
malnutrition so prevails among your children that it is comparable with the poorest sub-Sahara countries of Africa.
BTW, total egalitarianism wont work, either.