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Originally Posted by RichieB
How dare the rich be rich?! All that time they spent on bettering themselves over the good of the society! How dare they have the ability to improve their lot in life?! It is so obscene! Let us all socially redistribute all our wealth so the rich and the poor don't exist anymore. Yes Comrade?  |
Yes, let's turn this into an asinine political discussion full of strawmen, non sequiturs and other logical fallacies. Many rich people do not deserve to be as rich as they are, just as many poor people do not deserve to be as poor as they are. The system has never been fair in any sense of the word. There'll always be those who exploit it, and those who suffer from it. Moreover, the ability to do something useful with one's wealth does not grow proportionally with the wealth. There's a threshold beyond which additional wealth does not enrich one's quality of life in any meaningful way.