Measure of "Human Nature"

>>...If I suddenly went broke somehow in a freak accident, giving me money would be just fine, because I know how to plan ahead. Those who are habitually broke don't have the know-how of planning ahead, them being trained to survive in a resource-poor environment. ...
Posted by: HoboJerk, Re-branded

Doesn't spoil a good measure of "human nature" to note that some can rise above it.

And I would like to think my own many decades of miserable experiences would enable me to handle winning the Powerball jackpot without becoming an besotted wastrel... again.

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In the 'missing years of Jesus' part of the Urantia Book, Jesus counsels a businessman in Rome about moral disposition of wealth.

http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-132-sojourn-rome#...

"I am not concerned with the wealth of any other rich man; I am offering advice only to you and for your personal guidance. If you honestly desire to regard your wealth as a trust, if you really wish to become a wise and efficient steward of your accumulated wealth, then would I counsel you to make the following analysis of the sources of your riches: Ask yourself, and do your best to find the honest answer, whence came this wealth? And as a help in the study of the sources of your great fortune, I would suggest that you bear in mind the following ten different methods of amassing material wealth...."

Whatever the source, some good advice, which I was glad to have read early in life. Could've followed it better....