There is no substance in the subject. It is entirely a matter of jealousy about what someone else has. If wealth of any kind is now to be considered a negative thing then everyone can get used to higher and higher unemployment, fewer commodities, higher prices and less of every comfort and only bare necessities. Save your corn cobs!
“Poverty is noble” is a warped reading of a Christian concept that urges men never to allow wealth to become their god.
1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.