We are foolish as a society if we think that social mobility can be sustained without moral formation

Virtue Matters More Than Money

by ANTHONY BRADLEY

Without wise stewardship the fast acquisition of wealth 

will find one quickly living in poverty.

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 fromBusinessInsider.com:
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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. 

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