If a person, such as a celebrity, is successful and rich, should they have to give back to charities, communities, etc.? I see a lot of people on social media giving celebrities a hard time when they make a big purchase, saying that they should give the money they spent on X to someone more needy. It bothers me to see so many people with this mentality. I don't think celebrities owe anyone anything. I think they work hard for it(most people don't know the schedule they have is incredibly demanding) and they just got lucky with their career path. So do you think the rich should give to the needy? Do you think it should be expected of them? Is it wrong for people to assume that it is?
The whole approach to what "the rich" should do is usually little more than tubthumping and rabble rousing. It's easy to demand that other people live in a manner of our choosing but the simple reality is that, compared to many, most of us are rich. Essentially what much of this kind of posturing boils down to is little more than spite and envy, where "the rich" means "people with more than me".
Ultimately what someone else does with their money is their business and they don't need my approval. It's far more productive to figure what I'm going to do with the resources at my disposal than to be fussing over what someone else would do.
Some years ago I was a member of another board (sadly no longer in existence). There were just a small group of us using it, and although most of us had never met in person we all felt we knew each other reasonably well, having formed something of a huddle on a different board. One member of the group was financially struggling and it was agreed by the staff (I was an admin of the board) that we would post a message inviting the membership to donate to meet a specific need that a member had. Everything was anonymous to protect the privacy and dignity of the member we knew had a very specific need. Anyway, take a wild guess who the first person to donate to the cause was... That person was struggling to pay their own bills but still managed to find something to give to someone they assumed was in even greater need than they were.
It's easy for those of us who don't have untold millions behind us to figure anything we do pales into insignficance against what "rich people" can (and, we therefore assume, should) do. But just look through Scripture to see what God does with donations that can only be described as pitiful. One person gives up their lunch at a gathering of thousands and Jesus uses it to feed everybody with plenty left over. A widow gives her last drops of oil and scraps of flour to make a cake for Elijah and her meagre resources never run out. A widow throws a couple of copper coins into the collection, right after people dumping wads of cash, and Jesus praises her for her giving. God isn't constrained by human quantities.
