4 interaction • Posted by u/testimony08 Oct 20 A true approach to life 👌 Tyler Perry has a firm rule about family money: help should build people up, not replace their own effort.For years, his aunt was always asking him for money, and he kept sending it. Eventually he decided to help her build something instead, so he offered her a job. She skipped shifts and called in, and he fired her. "I fired my aunt," he said on Kirk Franklin's *Den of Kings*, leaving the other guests stunned.He applied the same approach after his mother died in 2009. Several relatives had depended on him at her request, and he sent each one a letter giving them 60 days to find work. All of them did. The jobs weren't high-paying, but they were jobs.One relative was angry when Perry refused to give them $1 million. Forbes estimates his fortune at $1.4 billion, so the amount would hardly have dented it. He said no anyway.He's raising his son, Aman, by the same rule: Offer support and opportunity, but not as a permanent substitute for personal responsibility.