Ok King Benjamin's sermon is the absolute funniest thing to me, because I feel like we always focus on "oh, pitch your tent toward the prophet! Watch general conference!" And we don't really talk about the actual content of the sermon.
King Benjamin literally says, "Hey besties, if you see a poor person and refuse to help them because you think they deserve their situation, you're a horrible person. Wealth is not an indicator of morality, you haven't earned anything because all of it came from God. Help other people as much as you possibly can, and don't covet others' wealth"
i just think that's neat and we should think about it more instead of buying into the American "every man for himself" mentality. I understand the fear that people are scamming you or taking advantage of you, but at the end of the day, you don't know what their situation is. If you have enough to give, you should give. If you don't have enough, but you would give if you could, you're doing great. Bootstrap-pulling is a dumb concept and demonstrably doesn't work.
It's just funny because we reference "are we not all beggars?" all the time, but we don't really read it in context. It's the same speech as "when ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your God" and guess what! That applies to money, too! I guess it's just a little silly that we always gloss over that part.
