The earned and the unearned

On reading a statement by a conservative Republican that he believes all Democrats think that wealthy Americans are undeserving of their prosperity, I am reminded of my Seventh Day Adventist grandmother who actually told me one time that everyone who has ever achieved any kind of success in life, be it wealth or fame, only did so by being in league with the Devil. Now either she didn't know that hard work tends to result in success or she believed that hard work should remain unrewarded. I think it was the latter because she certainly believed in hard work. Perhaps she thought it should consist of unending drudgery which remains unrewarded - at least in this life, which was supposed to be a vale of tears, anyway.