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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
It's how a lot of them "keep score," and it also happens to provide the capital investment for other entrepreneurs. Do they do good? A hell of a lot more than you or me, that's for sure. Ask an economist whether they should be taxed more, and they would probably say that the tax system overall should provide a safety net for everybody, but that investing their excess wealth in the general economy is probably a better use of it than giving it away. There's a happy medium to all of this, of course.
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Hank, you're talking sense.
Some self-righteous people like to feel superior, sitting in judgement of others, accusing them of being too successful, "too rich," and calling for their wealth to be stripped and redistributed. And all the while they are sitting on their high horse, proclaiming nobody "needs" so much money, they are conveniently oblivious to the fact they are probably in the top 25%, or better, in terms of wealth.
I'll bet there are tens of millions of people in this country, and a few billion people worldwide, who think anybody who has a few thousand dollars to spend on cardboard pictures has "too much money," and that morally, that money should go to taxes or charity to feed the hungry.
But, of course, people who like to play the class envy game only advocate redistributing OTHER peoples' wealth.