And Jesus would be the first kid of wealth to get sick of the BS that went along with being rich and selfish.
I think if he WERE rich, it would make the story all that much better.
Nothing wrong with that.
The story of Jesus does not mention the accumulation of wealth. His adoptive father (aged Joseph) was not rich and Mary didn't bring any money into the marriage. Jesus worked as a carpenter (not a wealthy profession). So on the whole, whatever money was saved up from carpentry would not have supported a Donald Trump lifestyle for three years of preaching. Was He given gifts? Sure. Could He have manufactured all the cash He wanted? Sure. But that was what the temptation in the desert was all about. A repudiation of the things of this world. As well as a repudiation of the lord of this world.
i think that the example that Jesus set for us is that money by itself is unimportant. Sell all you have and give it to the poor is not a condemnation of money, but a condemnation of the attitude and the priorities of the rich kid. And us, individually, and as a society.