TRUTH!!
Ironically, there seems to be so much money more money out there nowadays and so much less virtue and as this author illustrates and the Business Insider article documents, one can be to be elusive and fleeting while the other will sustain you for a lifetime.
Who would have thought you would find a great sports cautionary tale on the Acton Blog?
from the Acton.org Blog:
Virtue Matters More Than Money | Acton PowerBlog:
There is such powerful interest in sports being a way out of poverty for many low-income males, especially black males, that we tend to forget about other things, like wisdom, that contribute to success. For many young men and women sports has given them and their families amazing new opportunities to quickly go from subsistence to wealth. However, for many athletes the lessons of stewardship, which are first modeled in the home, were never properly cultivated, resulting in them losing all of their earnings within a short time. Here are just a few recent ones from BusinessInsider.com:
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The recent Allen Iverson news, in particular, has caused many to revisit this issue in new ways. When thinking about what sustains success in the long-run we are foolish as a society if we think that social mobility can be sustained without moral formation. Athletes are people who should be treated with dignity and not as commodities to be traded for the sake of wins and tickets sales. What this means is that if we are doing to promote the possibility of sports participation as a means of social mobility we cannot do that without cultivating and training the moral virtues needed to properly exercise stewardship over wealth. Otherwise, we will continue see disaster stories like these. Without wise stewardship the fast acquisition of wealth will find one quickly living in poverty.
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