Originally Posted by Relentless

According to your flawed logic, anyone can get into the hedge fund business or start their own investment bank if they want to have access to the tax incentives of being in that industry. Your 'choice' not to work in finance is the only thing preventing you from taking advantage of carried interest... just as a poor person's 'choice' not to save 10 million dollars is the only thing preventing them from making effective use of tax free investment income and capital gains alternative tax rates.

As to the sky not being blue... that depends on what you are trying to determine. Most humans see the sky as blue because of the way light refracts in our atmosphere. To a blind person the sky isn't blue, to other life forms the sky isn't blue, and in essence the blue color we perceive subjectively has nothing to do with the universal nature of the 'sky' - hence the sky is also not blue at night. Saying the sky is always blue would be inaccurate, in much the same way the rest of your comments also fail to take the larger view into account.