Which of these groups should sacrifice the most?

[opebo]

"Shared sacrifice" is a dumb concept. If you think the present system is scaled too favourably to the rich, you should support sacrifices to made by the rich before the non-rich. If you think the present tax system is too unfavourable to the rich, you should support sacrifices made by the non-rich before the rich. Yet again status quo bias pervades, with people not really having any coherent philosophy of economic fairness to guide their decisions.

I'd go a bit further - anyone who suggests calling the rich to account for their crimes without demanding the proper punishment is really just whistling Dixie.  Calling for sacrifices is just like asking Simon Legree 'not to beat us so much' or to give us a little more cornpone.  The appropriate response to the crimes of the slaveowner is to do one's best to kill him and all his heirs and dispossess them of their lands.

[opebo]

It's really odd, I have never met a person who was paid a massive sum for not being sick. Indeed, commoners like myself are not paid when we are sick.

You need to become a socialist, you nincompoop.

[opebo]

There is no need for "shared sacrifice." The sonsofbitches who created this mess should pay to fix it. We need to go back to the days of the 70% top income tax rate.

What we really need is to guillotine them.  But I'm afraid that's as much a pipe dream as is raising their taxes significantly.  The have all the power, of course that's why they have all the money.

[opebo]

What we really need is to guillotine them.  But I'm afraid that's as much a pipe dream as is raising their taxes significantly.  The have all the power, of course that's why they have all the money.

You want to decapitate Warren Buffett, Oprah and Mark Zuckerberg?

Are you trying to get me in trouble? 

[opebo]

My point is that I'd love to hear Opebo's explanation for how Zuckerberg's wealth was derived from the exploitation of the poor. He created a product that poor people have benefited immensely from and don't even have to pay to use; the labor involved in its production came from bourgeois engineers and programmers; and those engineers and programmers, along with Zuckerberg, ultimately monetized their product via an IPO that they benefited from at the expense of...rich people and investment banks who bought Facebook stock at the inflated IPO price. If Zuckerberg has remotely taken advantage of anyone in his rise to great wealth, it's his fellow rich people.

Chop them all and let the Lord sort 'em out!