The Master said, “Wealth and honor are what people desire, but one should not abide in them if it cannot be done in accordance with the [Tao] Way. Poverty and lowliness are what people dislike, but one should not avoid them if it cannot be done in accordance with the [Tao] Way. . . .” The Master said, “The noble person is concerned with rightness; the small person is concerned with profit.”

–The Analects of Confucius

Read the passage from The Analects of Confucius. What is the author’s main message?

People should focus on living right, not on being rich or avoiding poverty.
If people live in accordance with the teaching of Confucius, then they will be rich.
People should be concerned with profits, not rightness.
Only wealthy people can be noble, because nobility comes from wealth and honor.

the answer is d. give brainliest if right.

ps is this 7th grade civics?

that would be the steamboat because none of the other things are forms of transportation

the vast majority of ballots have been counted nearly two weeks after one of the biggest political upsets in modern u.s. history catapulted donald trump to the presidency.

estimates show more than 58 percent of eligible voters went to the polls during the 2016 election, nearly breaking even with the turnout rate set during the last presidential election in 2012, even as the final tallies in states like california continue to be calculated, according to statistics collected by the u.s. elections project.

but among those figures were stark contrasts in key states that swing the election to trump — in ohio, wisconsin, iowa, michigan and elsewhere — indicating the president-elect’s leap from long-shot candidate to the most powerful political position in the world may have happened in part because of apathy toward hillary clinton’s candidacy, especially among the democratic base, several political scientists and organizations monitoring voter turnout told the pbs newshour.

while clinton is leading the popular vote by more than 1.5 million over trump as of sunday, she trails president obama’s 2012 totals by more than 2 million ballots — a chasm that may have cost her the election, said david becker, co-founder of the center for election and innovation and research.

“several million voters didn’t come out to vote,” becker said. “which is telling me that this idea of the trump wave, a huge number of voters shifting over to trump, is certainly not the story.”

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