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Originally posted by 12clicks
Anyone can trot out a half whit has been who has the wrong opinion on something. Look at Soros, a billionaire who now fears capitalism.
If the handful of multi billionaires want to put their money where their mouth is, I won't stop them. Typically however, they're all mouth (gets them and their fund noticed)
Millionaires in America are workers. Workers who excel over and above what is average. Penalizing them hurts society.
It's so simple yet the dumb can't wrap their feeble minds around it.
When our kids are in school, do we penalize our "A" students because others can only do "C" work or do we reward our "A" students for their hard work?
Our society succeeds because of its brightest and most productive. Taking away their incentive will destroy the America we know.
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Bullshit.
Beautiful people make more money
People that look rich make more money
I myself make a lot more money than most of my friends, although many of them work harder. Why? Because I got lucky with some business decisions.
Have you ever noticed that the managers who run companies into the ground are often paid millions a year? These are people that pretty much suck at what they do, who often got their jobs through good business connections. Quite a few are even corrupt and damage society more than they benefit it (does Enron ring a bell?).
An orthodontist makes 3 times as much as a normal dentist. The extra education he needs takes 1 to 2 years, and the required skill level is pretty much the same. Are you trying to tell me he works 3 times as hard?
The idea that society succeeds because of millionaires is ludicrous.
Without policemen, society would fall into anarchy.
Without teachers, kids would lack a basic education.
Without scientists, there would be no technology worth speaking of, and the whole modern society would be completely impossible.
Without stock traders, there wouldn't be any stock traders.
So are you saying that stock traders are more important to society than policemen?
Are you saying that plastic surgeons do society more good than schoolteachers?
Are you even seriously considering the thought that basketball players do society more good than scientists?
Sure, capitalism has it's benefits. But thinking money is an objective standard of hard work, talent and beneficiality to society is just plain stupid.
<i>The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.</i>
-Milton Friedman