It's not as if most of the top income earners are sacking people or selling tobacco though.
No, they just profit from it. Yes, obviously this is a systemic issue. But in order to get to that point a degree of - as you rightly called it - talent is needed. That's the issue to me, actually.
I don't know. The main part of the Llanwern steelworks was shut down nearly a decade ago mostly in order to boost the share price of the company that owned it (Corus). I'm using this example because it was clear-cut and because I know the area well (my Nan grew up nearby). Now that wasn't done out of spite, but was it not an evil - or at least morally dubious - thing to do? To an extent I suppose it depends on how you view the world, but from my point of view it's clear enough.
Yes, that's true. But I've never suggested otherwise.
You're implying that a man can own his employment in the same sense that a man can own property, and can feel indignation at it being taken away unfairly, if not unlawfully. I have a hard time recalling if that has that ever been true.
