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Originally posted by 2HousePlague
You missed the point. Don't you see, in your system, after a whille all you have are the heirs of the kids whose daddy's once made fortunes (on the backs of repressed labor, in many cases) living on one side of a wall -- and the people who toil to keep their floors clean on the other. You defend it by saying things like "what's wrong with keeping what i earned?" -- but you forget that people do more with money (the really wealthy and powerful) than live comfortably. they use that power to amend legislature and shape society into a distorted form that makes things easier and easier for them. here, let me give you an example -- if rich is having a million dollars in the bank, what i'm talking about is having enough money (collectively) to inflict your will on a whole country of people. what do you think asserted itself in the election 2 days ago? it was the ages-old mutually propagating coalition between wealth and separatism. what do you think republicans do but fortify the wall between a privleged, morally-unassailable class and everyone else?
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88% of all individuals in America worth over 10 million dollars are first generation wealthy. Inheriting wealthy and building on it is rare these days. Most of that is either gifted else where or it is squandered by the children that inherit it.
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