Okay. I must ask. What is this forum's hatred of rich people? What is wrong with people making their own money by honest toil and keeping it?
1. Much of the wealth in America is inherited. It's about keeping what Daddy or Grandpa made and living well off it without doing real work while ensuring that most who do the real work endure poverty.
2. The rich have a disproportionate influence upon political life, and they generally look out for their interests at the expense of everyone else.
3. The rich get a rap for supporting economic and political hierarchy at the expense of democracy. On an individual basis such may be untrue, but on the whole it seems true to most of us.
4. We all envy the economic security that the rich have decided is theirs alone as all others are to live under fear as a motivator.
Plutocracy is not freedom.
