Every time you talk about the top 1% or even the top 0.01%, you eliminate an opportunity to talk about how you can really help the bottom 50%.
By constantly painting things as hopeless and unfair, all you do is stimulate rage.
By constantly painting things as hopeless and unfair, all you do is stimulate rage.
Also, if it's not just painting, but actually unfair, then it's up to the reader to have an emotional reaction or not.
You think that the ultra-rich don't have an "us-vs-them" mentality? You think that they aren't lobbying and fighting and advertising and campaigning to keep their unearned wealth and power for themselves?
The rich have an us vs them mentality because the media demonizes them for working hard. I dislike rich people as much as anyone but the productive response isn’t rage. Rage gives the rich even more power and reason to look for more reasons to hide their wealth and exploit.
If you’re so convinced the rich have “harmed” you why not try to move somewhere where you believe your ideals are more aligned?
People who take your view that billionaires deserve their money because they "work hard" -- and I'm sure some of them do work hard -- usually don't realize how much money a billion dollars really is. An individual could never work hard enough or long enough or smart enough to deserve that amount of money.
- A million seconds ago was 12 days ago. A billion seconds ago was the 80s.
- With a 5% return on their wealth -- most billionaires actually make closer to 10% returns -- you make $137,000 a day if you have a billion dollars. So the poorest billionaires make more money in a day than 99% of Americans make in an entire year.
- https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/you-have-no-idea-how-m...
Nobody should have that much money. Nobody.
He has literally sat around doing nothing, occasionally traveling to Africa to boost his PR, and got more money than the median American could make in a million years. How did he "earn" that?