The more you have, the more you can invest. Investing is a form of helping. Also, you can use the profits from your investments to give direct aid and donations, as well as create nonprofit organizations to fund. All of this can be gamed for appearances’ sake as well. It’s a hall of mirrors. If everything is politics, what they do is as suspect as what they don’t do.

You can’t pour from an empty cup. The more you have, the more you have to work with, and the more you can help others.

This is what the parable of the talents is meant to demonstrate, for example.