Reply #57: Here's the thing about the rich [View All]

[Capitalocracy]

If you got rich by creating businesses that employ people and pay them a fair wage, which would be a living wage plus, a living wage is basically a slave wage but anything over that starts to reach the category of giving people something to work for (which leaves less than a living wage as basically class warfare and theft), and you continued to expand your wealth by investing in more businesses that create more and more of these jobs, then I would say great, be as rich as you want, I love it. The problem is that people do get rich on the backs of the poor in our society, instead of getting rich by creating economic activity, creating wealth, creating decent jobs, etc.

What really gets me is how easy it would be to solve this, at least if we had a working government. All we'd have to do is say OK, you can't pay anyone less than a living wage, and you can't pay anyone less than a living wage anywhere in the world if you want to sell your products in the U.S. (along with standards for working conditions, safety, environment, etc.) Then we can let the rich get as rich as they damn well please as long as they can do it under those rules.