What’s the Point of Being Rich if You Have No Soul?
Rich man getting what’s coming to him
I, like everyone else in South Carolina sat glued to the TV watching as the jury foreperson read the verdict. Alex Murdaugh, A prominent Low Country Attorney. The jury found him guilty of murdering his wife and their twenty-two-year-old son. Murdaugh was later sentenced to twenty-seven years in prison for financial crimes.
The Saga of the Murdaugh family is too complex to go into all the details. I gave up on trying to keep track of it all. The thought that ran through my mind. as I watched the snippets of the murder trial on local news what good is wealth and power if you have no morals or soul?
What a messed up family
The more I hear about this family, I can’t help but wonder what other skeletons will be unearthed. There are rumors of other murders and I’m sure more fraud will be uncovered. Pictures portray a good-looking and loving family.
The pictures were a facade. The Murdaugh family was messed up. They had wealth and power without a moral compass to guide them. As it always does, their corruption and evil were brought to light and exposed.
Not all rich kids are rotten, I met some good ones
When I was a security guard in Florida I worked at a few expensive condo communities. It amazed me how entitled and spoiled some of those people were. A lot of their Teenage kids were obnoxious brats as well.
The teenagers did what they wanted to do. They would have underaged drinking parties all night in the common area. A common area with furniture was more expensive than the car I had at the time.
Drugs, Booze and orgies, it’s fun being a rich kid
They would trash the place. Most of the security problems we had were due to teenage misbehavior. It wasn’t just the kids. The adults had to have their way at all times. The rules were obeyed when it suited them.
Wealth brings out a person’s true character. A lot of people are rotten and being rich takes that rottenness to another level. Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife. He also killed one of his sons because he thought it would ease his financial situation.
If money and reputation are more important than family, you have a problem
Is having several fancy houses and boats that important? Or having a good appearance in the community? If being rich will cause me to lose my moral decency and values I would rather be poor.
It’s not only the head of the family, Alex Murdaugh’s surviving son has issues as well. Suffice it to say that you wouldn’t want to invite either of them to dinner or go on a boat trip with them. No Accountability, no morals, and a false sense of entitlement.
Those three things lead to tragedy and death. It’s because wealth and status magnified the corruption that was already there. If wealth will cause me to be a murdering, thieving scumbag, I would rather be poor.
Final Thought:
It’s fascinating to watch the Murdaugh Saga play out. The destruction of a prominent family shows that wealth without morals and integrity is useless. If wealth creates monsters it’s better to be poor.