If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools bring down crime build affordable housing clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.
Science goes from question to question big questions and little tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader the answers are seen to be more limited.
Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.
I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation karma all that stuff.